Baring The Political: Bare Life, Borders And The Body
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Baring The Political: Bare Life, Borders And The Body
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Maita A. Sayo; School of Humanities, Ateneo de Manila University
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HUmanities
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What is the political, and how do we situate ourselves within it? Giorgio Agamben locates an essential function for modern politics in the homo sacer, a bare life that “may be killed and yet not sacrificed,” a precarious body that exists in a tenuous relationship between life and death. The author will explore this tension by asking: first, how is the homo sacer embodied? how do “zones of indistinction,” exemplified by the exclusion of bare life as abject, rupture mainstream conceptions of the sovereign state? Second, what are the contradictions within Agamben’s concept of the sovereign exception? Underpinning this is the question of how crucial borders are to modern politics, and how these borders are constituted, reified, and policed. however, when the impermeability and limits of these borders are put to question, how does this complicate mainstream conceptions of the political? finally, can a return to remembering the body—to embody the “bare life” of the homo sacer despite the aporias of language—be a moment of resistance? If we are all homo sacer, as Agamben forcefully argues, what kind of political life is possible?
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Loyola Schools, Ateneo de Manila University
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2008-05-22
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application/pdf
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http://www.philjol.info/index.php/LSR/article/view/267
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Loyola Schools Review; Vol 6 (2007); 69-100
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en
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Philippines
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