Giorgio Agamben

In, Life That Does Not Deserve to Live, Giorgio Agamben aims to expand on Michel Foucault’s concepts of ‘biopower’ and ‘biopolitics’, to express the way in which the state has power over society in the way that ‘bare life’ is produced. He uses the Latin term homo sacer – literally translated to ‘sacred man’ – to describe a life which can be “eliminated without punishment” , one that possesses no value to the state and therefore can be terminated without the act being considered a crime. Examples

If Giorgio Agamben’s concept of nudity is accurately understood as the opposite of concealment, or the removal of a veil, then his work Nudities also shows us the truth about inoperativity. This philosophy is less concerned with laziness or sloth within humanity than with the continuation of human actions in the politics of the future. Modern politics are vastly concerned with the lives of people everywhere. Not just their state of living, but their ways of living. Privacy is drastically changing

Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life is a very complex text presented in three detailed sections. The first section is an analysis of sovereignty, introducing it through Schmitt’s definition of sovereignty as being the one who decides on the exception. The second section is a survey of the idea of Homo Sacer: the person who cannot be sacrificed, but who can be killed. The final section then illustrates the role of the Auschwitz camp, which is known for its brutal murders and

Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben both have written on life in various matters, like how it has been ordered and controlled by power. This article engages with the theories of Foucault and Agamben and focuses on their work on resistance. It studies the different construction to the concept of individual, which termed into singularity or life itself. In Agamben theory, dispositive represents the power relation network, articulates how a power not based upon the classical conception of sovereignty

In Giorgio Agamben's view, “The state of exception constitutes a point of imbalance between public law and political fact that is situated like civil war, insurrection and resistance in an ambiguous, uncertain, borderline fringe, at the intersection of the legal

Giorgio Agamben’s book Homo Sacer begins by addressing the topics of bare life and meaningful socially contextualized life in relation to the philosophical terms of zoē and bios respectively. Agamben toys with the idea that sovereignty naturally coincides with bios, whereas zoē is only “included in politics in the form of exception.” (Agamben 10) This assertion runs parralel to the idea of atavism, which is essentially the principle that humans can often revert to primal and ancestral behaviors when

certain national identity; one comprised of ideal, desirable citizens. Developing Argument Due to their marginal position on a biopoitically constructed hierarchy of otherness, labour migrants in Singapore often exist as a form of “bare life” (Agamben 1998); one constructed through biopolitical action, characterized by a lack of access to resources generally available to other demographics, and solidified through a restriction to safe, fulfilling, and free reproductive lives. While Singaporean

What I’m interested in exploring with the series of work Apparatus of Sovereign Power as Mechanisms of Control, are the functions of biopower (a term devised by French philosopher Michel Foucault which applies to the concept of controlling populations and managing people1), the political mechanisms through which biopower operates, and the effects on identity and the physical self. In this small body of work, I have created four drawings in charcoal that make an attempt to mock scenarios in which

reason; though many have attempted to create overarching theories regarding the phenomenon, all have fallen short of grasping the dual nature of its formation: both demanding of hard work and of faith in some higher, seemingly transcendent force. Giorgio Agamben’s piece “Magic and Happiness,” an excerpt from his work Profanations, is no exception. The passage argues in favor of a belief in “magic,” a divine and all-encompassing force that presents, in his opinion, the solitary path towards true happiness

Throughout history, one of the most important things in life for men has been “power.” Having the power to control over the others, having power to keep order among people, and power to be the supreme. So there comes the controversy on what sovereignty actually means? Sovereignty best fits in the category of supreme power, but in order to have such authority there is a need of an existence from a state. The idea of State and sovereignty goes hand-in-hand, because it belongs to the nation and supervises