"Les usages politiques du corps". Université d’été du 25 au 30 aout 2014 en Albanie. / Pao-Wen Tsao

The Death of One’s Own : The Sovereignty at its Limit

While stating in plain words that modern politics is characterized by the irreducible indistinction of the realm of bare life and that of the political, Girogio Agamben in a rather less conspicuous passage in this introduction for his book Homo Sacer said that “When its borders begin to be blurred, the bare life that dwelt there frees itself in the city and becomes both subject and object of the conflicts of the political order, the one place for both the organization of State power and (...)