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	Giorgio Agamben - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Agamben was educated at the University of Rome, where he wrote a thesis on the political thought of Simone Weil.
		Giorgio Agamben is particularly critical of the United States' response to September 11, 2001, and its instrumentalization as a permanent condition that legitimizes a state of exception as the dominant paradigm for governing in contemporary politics.
		Agamben’s thoughts on the state of emergency leads him to declare that the difference between dictatorship and democracy is thin indeed, as rule by decree became more and more common, starting from World War I and the reorganization of constitutional balance.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Giorgio_Agamben (2471 words)

	Agamben [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Giorgio Agamben is currently one of the leading figures in Italian philosophy and radical political theory, and in recent years, his work has had a deep impact on contemporary scholarship in a number of disciplines in the Anglo-American intellectual world.
		Agamben calls this mute condition of language “Voice,” and concludes that a philosophy that thinks only from the foundation of Voice cannot deliver the resolution of metaphysics that the nihilism toward which we are moving demands.
		Agamben’s theorization of the “coming politics”—which in its present formulation is under-developed in a number of significant ways—relies upon a logic of “euporic” resolution to the aporias that characterise modern democracy, including the aporia of bare life (P 217).
	www.iep.utm.edu /a/agamben.htm (4925 words)

	Giorgio Agamben - Professor of Philosphy - Biography
		Giorgio Agamben is a professor of philosophy at the European Graduate School in Saas-Fee, Switzerland, where he teaches an Intensive Summer Workshop.
		Giorgio Agamben, Phd., is a professor of aesthetics at the University of Verona, Italy and teaches philosophy at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris and at the University of Macerata in Italy.
		Agamben's philosophy of language, one of the predilect and overarching themes of his work throughout the eighties, is informed by very fine readings of Heidegger, Wittgenstein, and Benjamin.
	www.egs.edu /faculty/agamben.html (863 words)

	Homo sacer - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Agamben describes the homo sacer as an individual who exists in the law as an exile.
		Agamben says that the states of homo sacer, political refugees, those persecuted in the Holocaust, and the "enemy combatants" imprisoned in Guantanamo Bay and other sites are similar.
		Thus, Agamben argues, "the so-called sacred and inalienable rights of man prove to be completely unprotected at the very moment it is no longer possible to characterize them as rights of the citizens of a state".
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Homo_sacer (413 words)

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		Agamben refers to the latter in one of the “digressions” of Language and Death, in all the Homo Sacer installments, in Il tempo che resta, in Stato di Eccezione, etc. It is difficult to translate this term into English.
		Agamben concludes his brief discussion with a refrain that is well-known to his readers: “Consequently, in the modern age, Western politics has been thought as the collective assumption of a historical task (a “work”) by a people or a nation.
		Agamben remarks that the potentiality of human beings is always the potentiality not to do something (as opposed, for instance, to the potentiality of the child who does not know but eventually will, once she has ’suffered’ the proper alteration).
	www.arts.auckland.ac.nz /phi/staff/stefano_franchi_files/Papers/PassivePolitics/html/Passive-politics-Contretemps3.html (3962 words)

	b o r d e r l a n d s e-journal
		Agamben begins his reflections on the aporia of witnessing the event of Auschwitz by noting two terms for witness in Latin: the first of these is testis, which indicates the position of a third party in a trial or lawsuit between rival parties.
		Agamben argues that neither the claim that the intolerable uniqueness of Auschwitz lies in the degradation of life nor, conversely, in the degradation of death, is sufficient to yield an understanding of the indistinction of the human and the inhuman and an ethics adequate to the challenge presented by the Muselmänner.
		Agamben rejects interpretations of the shame of the survivor in terms of guilt or innocence to argue that the experience of shame derives not from culpability but from the ontological situation of being consigned to something that one cannot assume (Agamben, 1999: 105).
	www.borderlandsejournal.adelaide.edu.au /vol2no1_2003/mills_agamben.html (4064 words)

	Giorgio Agamben
		Agamben successfully outlines the development in history of a political rationality whereby the executive comes to acquire legislative power by means of decrees that parliament is only called to approve or rectify.
		Agamben observes that this process, which began during the World Wars and was instantiated as a state of emergency, nowadays functions in substitution for the 'democratic' legislation process.
		In this Agamben refers to Nancy's idea of abandonment as 'a putting a band, where the band is an order, a prescription, a decree, a permission and the power that holds these freely at his disposal', as well as that of being banned, at the mercy of and at one's own will, freely (see bandits).
	www.generation-online.org /p/pagamben.htm (2251 words)

	Noys on Agamben
		Agamben has developed a new theory of 'gestural cinema', arguing that 'the element of cinema is gesture and not image'.
		Giorgio Agamben is professor of aesthetics at the University of Verona, Italy, and he works on the margins of literature, philosophy, and politics.
		Agamben takes the example of dance -- what dance exhibits is not a movement that has an end in itself, but movement for its own sake; dance as aesthetic.
	www.film-philosophy.com /vol8-2004/n22noys (2389 words)

	<nettime> Report: Giorgio Agamben. Stato di eccezione
		Agamben identifies the 'military order' issued by George W. Bush on 13 November 2001 (subjecting non-citizens suspected of terrorist activities to indefinite detention and military tribunals) as the most recent in a line of emergency measures that open a no-man's-land between the political and the juridical.
		Agamben argues that the state of emergency is the means invented by Schmitt to respond to this postulation of a pure violence.
		Stato di eccezione is Agamben's most sustained blueprint of this politics-to-come, a document that charts an ethical and conceptual path beyond the state of exception by providing tools to break into and move through it.
	www.mail-archive.com /nettime-l@bbs.thing.net/msg00974.html (1419 words)

	BOOKFORUM \| summer 2004
		Agamben's core thesis is that throughout Western history there has been aesthetic doubling constitutive of art as it is lived by artists and spectators alike.
		Part of the misadventure of aesthetic thought for Agamben is that it traffics in nothingness, death, and the skeletal remains of the living.
		In our culture, Agamben maintains, "man has always been the result of a simultaneous division and articulation of the animal and the human, in which one of the two terms of the operation was also what was at stake in it.
	www.bookforum.com /archive/sum_04/morris.html (4435 words)

	Law & Society Review: Thresholds: Sovereignty and the sacred
		Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life is one of those books that comes along all too infrequently, unsettling conventional answers and inspiring new questions in a range of academic disciplines.
		Agamben's phrasing is often equivocal and his time frame for the passage to modernity seems to shift, such that at times he appears to hold a portion of ancient Greek politics and philosophy as the counterpoint to the process he describes.
		Nevertheless, in contrast to Foucault, Agamben casts the transformation at issue in terms of a revelation or a coming to light of what was present in the West's conception of politics from the start, a process that, according to Agamben, links democracy and totalitarianism in biopolitical solidarity.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa3757/is_200001/ai_n8898181 (1249 words)

	IJBS (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Giorgio Agamben is currently professor of aesthetics at the University of Verona, in Italy, but the Italian philosopher known for works such as Language and Death, Stanzas, and the Coming Community
		Agamben concludes the essay thus: “Only in a world in which the spaces of states have been thus perforated and topologically deformed and in which the citizen has been able to recognise the refugee that he or she is – only in such a world is the political survival of humankind today thinkable”.
		Agamben then takes the reader through the genealogy of “the state of exception”, noting that “in Western states it not only appears increasingly as a technique of government rather than an exceptional measure, but it also lets its own nature as the constitutive paradigm of the juridical order come to light”.
	www.ubishops.ca /baudrillardstudies/vol2_2/dasilva.htm (3222 words)

	Daniel Binswanger: Preacher of the profane - signandsight
		However according to Agamben, the state of exception today is no longer a punctual event occurring in times of regime crisis — for example during the transition from the Fourth to the Fifth Republic in France or the emergence of the Federal Republic of Germany from the ruins of the Nazi era.
		Agamben seeks to overcome Schmitt's theological concept of sovereignty by means of the messianic reinvention of the political.
		Agamben is fascinated by this deep-seated earnestness: it should permit an anomie beyond arbitrariness, an action that is meaningful but unforced.
	signandsight.com /features/399.html (3326 words)

	The Political Life in Giorgio Agamben by Colin McQuillan
		For Agamben, this “essential context” or “indissoluble cohesion” is the “inseparable unity of Being and ways of Being, of subject and qualities.” And this “inseparable unity” is the potentiality of bare life, comprising both its power to be and its power not to be.
		Agamben reads Aristotle’s claim that “all potentiality is impotentiality of the same and with respect to the same”–as meaning that potentiality “maintains itself in relation to its own privation...
		Agamben says that talk of “being,” of human beings or being human “is not up to the level of the simple mystery of humans’ having, of their habitations or their habits.”
	garnet.acns.fsu.edu /~nr03/mcquillan.htm (3088 words)

	BMRCL Fall 2002, Vol. 3, No. 2
		Agamben relates this to Heidegger’s own understanding of the meaning of death, and the difference between a human death and the corpse that is fabricated.
		Agamben is drawn to paradoxes, enigmas, aporias, impossible possibles in the way in which a moth is drawn to light.
		Despite the brevity and compactness of Agamben’s study, he touches on grand themes--the nature of the human and the inhuman, language and speech, the basis of ethics and politics, the meaning of witnessing, archive, and testimony.
	www.brynmawr.edu /bmrcl/Fall2002/Agamben.html (1440 words)

	Amazon.com: Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Meridian (Stanford, Calif.).): Books: Giorgio Agamben (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Agamben stresses the fact that the camp is not only a place where the unspeakable takes place but more importantly and fundamentally where a human being is stripped "Naked", stripped of 'bios' and exposed as mere 'zoe', such that anything--including the unspeakable--CAN be done to him since nothing could be considered a criminal act.
		Agamben argues that the camp is the new biopolitical NOMOS of the planet by connecting the dots that Carl Schmitt first drew but left unconnected.
		Agamben begins his inquiry into sovereignty in the light of the problematic left to contemporary political ontology via Hobbes, Schmitt, and up to Heidegger (Dasein being that being who's very being is always at stake for that being, and ontological difference), post Heideggerian political thought (Nancy, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Derrida) and finally Foucault's bio-politics.
	www.amazon.com /exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0804732183?v=glance (2741 words)

	Means without End: Notes on Politics (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		A critical rethinking of the categories of politics within a new sociopolitical and historical context, this book builds on the previous work of the distinguished political philosopher Giorgio Agamben to address the status and nature of politics itself.
		Among the topics Agamben takes up are the "properly" political paradigms of experience, as well as those generally not viewed as political.
		Giorgio Agamben teaches philosophy at the Collège International de Philosophie in Paris and at the University of Macerata in Italy.
	www.upress.umn.edu /Books/A/agamben_end.html (240 words)

	Homo Sacer -- Sovereign Power and the Bare Life -- Giorgio Agamben Daniel Heller-Roazen (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Stanford tells us the Agamben is one of Italy's most important and original philosophers and that he has recently turned his thinking towards the constituion of the social and to some concrete, ethico-political conclusions concerning the state of society today, and the place of the individual within it.
		Agamben seeks to connect the problem of pure possibility, potentiality, and wpower with the problem of political and social ethics in a context where the latter has lost its previous religious, metaphysical, and cultural grounding.
		Central to Agamben's argument is the vital and intertwined relationship between the concepts of the biological life and political life.
	www.frontlist.com /detail/0804732183 (394 words)

	The Coming Community
		In this extraordinary and original philosophical achievement, Agamben develops the concept of community and the social implications of his philosophical thought.
		"Giorgio Agamben, Italy's leading philosopher and essayist, is one of the most delicate and probing writers I have encountered in recent years.
		"Agamben's text is a rare philosophical meditation on community as a kind of linguistic belonging that moves beyond both identity and universality.
	www.upress.umn.edu /Books/A/agamben_coming.html (323 words)

	German Law Journal - Book Review — Misery Knows no Law. Giorgio Agamben thinks the State of Exception
		And as we observe Agamben pushing the boundaries of legal speech to its limits and closely watching the emanation of its very terminology, we recognize the inspiration by the historian Ernst Kantorowicz.
		Agamben, in his “Ausnahmezustand”, dedicates another brillant excursion to Carl Schmitt: Agamben is capable of turning the old and conundrical story of Benjamin’s reference to Schmitt around: now Schmitt appears as the reader of Benjamin’s early essay Zur Kritik der Gewalt of 1921.
		The ensuing “secret debate”, as Agamben calls the discrete connection between Benjamin and Schmitt, is now being dominated by Schmitt’s attempt to neutralize the pure and anomical force that Benjamin had sketched in his text in order to bring it back into the law.
	www.germanlawjournal.com /article.php?id=438 (890 words)

	Infancy and History (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Agamben's profound and radical exploration of language, infancy, and everyday life traces concepts of experience through Kant, Hegel, Husserl and Benveniste.
		In doing so he elaborates a theory of infancy that throws new light on a number of major themes in contemporary thought: the anthropological opposition between nature and culture; the linguistic opposition between speech and language; the birth of the subject and the appearance of the unconscious.
		Agamben goes on to consider time and history; the Marxist notion of base and superstructure (via a careful reading of the famous Adorno–Benjamin correspondence on Baudelaire's Paris); and the difference between rituals and games.
	www.versobooks.com /books/ab/a-titles/agamben_g_infancy.shtml (241 words)

	Giorgio agamben - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
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	Amazon.co.uk: The Open: Man and Animal (Crossing Aesthetics): Books (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		In "The Open", contemporary Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben considers the ways in which the "human" has been thought of as either a distinct and superior type of animal, or a kind of being that is essentially different from animal altogether.
		Looking at angst, a defining stigmata of human identity, Agamben wonders it through its various moments to discover the possibility that angst itself is not the most proximal experience in angst, and that instead there is first a kind of boredom.
		Agamben finds a way clear to argue that human beings too can now be considered as animals alongside others, with our own peculiar disinhibitors being something like what has traditionally been thought of as "existentialia".
	www.amazon.co.uk /exec/obidos/ASIN/0804747385 (794 words)

	Politics and Culture (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-22)
		Engaged in the scrutiny of the bonds between life, ontology, and power, Agamben's claims dispute the "first philosophy" on which all of our practices, institutions, languages, and forms of construction of meaning are rooted.
		One of Agamben's most original contributions arises from his extension and radicalization of the Foucauldian concept of biopolitics and its assimilation to sovereign power.
		At this point, Agamben makes us confront that "the completion of history necessarily entails the end of man." The teleology articulating history resulted from metaphysical tensions, the same ones that lied behind the emergence of the political and humanity.
	aspen.conncoll.edu /politicsandculture/page.cfm?key=409 (1835 words)

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