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Showing 1 to 20 of 65 for “"Agamben"”.
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Agamben, the exception and law
Giorgio Agamben‘s work has been at the forefront of modern debates surrounding sovereign exceptionalism and emergency powers. His theory of the state of exception and engagements with Michel Foucault appear to focus upon sovereign power‘s ability to remove legal protections from life with impunity, …
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Giorgio Agamben and Post-Foundational Political Ontology
… artiklist ja sissejuhatusest, uurib Giorgio Agambeni poliitilist filosoofiat, mis on lähiaastatel mõjutanud erinevaid teadusdistsipliine. Paljude kommentaatorite arvates loovad Agambeni arheoloogilised uurimused ja mõtisklused liialt ekstreemse ja pessimistliku pildi kaasajast. Niisuguste …
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Gesture and the cinéaste: Akerman/Agamben, Varda/Warburg
… and cinematic, is explored through Giorgio Agamben’s similarly language-based thoughts on gesture, the moving image and repetition. Charting a three-stage gesture of (displaced) demonstration (proximal, medial and distal) that finds its linguistic correlate in a triad of slippery shifters …
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Quando a morte não é exceção : biopolítica, soberania, intersecções e divergências entre Mbembe e Agamben
… a partir dos estudos apresentados por Giorgio Agamben e Achille Mbembe. Para além de construir uma nova definição acerca do termo em si, ambos embasados na perspectiva da biopolítica foucaultiana, estes dois pensadores buscam analisar o exercício do poder soberano para, a partir disso, ofertar …
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The Threshold – a Place of the Hunchback. Violence and Transformation in works by Géricault, Dix, Salomon, Magritte, and Kafka
… system that goes beyond the state. In Agamben violence is ubiquitous, realised in a dispersed mode of sovereign power as a state of exception from the law. In addition to those thinkers my investigation is nurtured by Benjamin, Adorno and Butler. Butler and Agamben rearticulate …
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Death, Power, and the Body: A Bio-political Analysis of Death and Dying
… has become more and more indistinct, Giorgio Agamben has argued that bio-politics turns into "thanatopolitics" — a politics of death. As Agamben argues, death is not a biological moment but a political decision. In this study I will focus specifically on reconsidering the relations of power …
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Kiborgas kaip G. Agamben‘o „Antropologinės mašinos“ griovėjas /
Cyborg as a Destroyer of G. Agamben’s „Anthropological Machine“ Giorgio Agamben in his lesser known work The Open: Man and Animal diagnoses that history of politics, philosophy and science is a part of what he calls “Anthropological machine”, through which man is created and confronted with an …
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Algorithmic Sovereignty: Machine Learning, Ground Truth, and the State of Exception
… as theorized by Carl Schmitt and Giorgio Agamben, cannot be encoded within the normal liberal legal order. With states’ increasing turn toward algorithmic answers to questions of ‘security,’ which, per Agamben, is the long-term form of the political state of exception, the relationship …
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Nas sombras da contemporaneidade : da biopolítica à tanatopolítica
… às reflexões o panorama teórico de Giorgio Agamben quando trata da nossa contemporaneidade ao inaugurar uma nova representação ao trazer à luz a exceção característica do nosso fazer político e sua produção de hominissacri e vidas nuas.
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Digital biopolitics, hyper borders and datafication of inclusive-exclusion in EU migration management
… Βασισμένη σε θεωρητικές έννοιες των Foucault, Agamben και Mbembe, η εργασία προσδιορίζει την ανάπτυξη ενός συμπεριληπτικού αποκλεισμού όπου οι μετανάστες γίνονται ορατοί στα συστήματα και τα δικαιώματά τους είναι αόρατα. Καταδεικνύει πώς η datafication, η διαλειτουργικότητα και η προγνωστική …
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Between life and death : HIV and AIDS and representation in South Africa
… draws on the work of cultural theorists Giorgio Agamben and Judith Butler to consider how conditions of life in South Africa in the time of HIV and AIDS both articulate with and exceed the bio-political. The dissertation first presents a brief account of the history of the epidemic and government …
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The political logic of destituent power: time, subjectivity, and revolutionary violence
… social transformation. It argues that Giorgio Agamben's theory of 'destituent power' offers a compelling reconception of the meaning and function of revolutionary violence, whose originality is bound up in the theory of time from which it cannot be dissociated. The thesis demonstrates that …
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Constructing the "Other": Discursive Mechanisms at Play in the Sentencing of Post 9/11 Canadian Terrorism Cases
… overlooked. Inspired by the work of Giorgio Agamben and Richard Ericson, this study is a critical discourse analysis of sentencing decisions within five terrorism cases. Findings suggest that “othering” operates in these decisions through seven discursive mechanisms. Those mechanisms …
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The Darker Angels Of Our Nature: The South In American Horror Film
… horror parody. Using the theories of Giorgio Agamben and Julia Kristeva as a foundation, the study also tries to evaluate the processes by which the South is constructed as the nation's monstrous Other. While it is by no means a comprehensive study, this thesis covers some major (and some …
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The biopolitics of violence in the drama of the Niger Delta
… of exception" - a phrase coined by Giorgio Agamben to explain how political democracies exclude certain zones to legitimise state terror - in which biopolitical securitisations are programmatically unleashed on trouble-prone geographies in ways that reduce the citizens to the status of …
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The Time of Liberation: Angela Davis's Prison Abolition and Giorgio Agamben's Coming Community
… her call for prison abolition by way of Giorgio Agamben’s radical adjustments to traditional discourses about ontology in his work <em>The Coming Community. </em>Agamben’s rendering of ontology in terms of impotentiality and indifference, when put in dialogue with Davis, exposes latent and …
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Living Through Terror and Terror Through Living: The Biopolitical Dimensions of Religion, Security, and Terrorism
… specifically through Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben, new insights into the interactions between terrorism, politics, and religion can emerge. Most notably, the attempts to explain terror as simply an economic problem, an excessive form of violence, and/or as religious fervency gone awry rely …
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L'influence de la technologie sur le rôle de l'infirmière des soins intensifs dans les activités de surveillance des patients
… sur le plan théorique sur les travaux de Giorgio Agamben, développés à partir de l’expérience humaine en camps de concentration. Les concepts d’état d’exception et de vie nue, en particulier, retiennent notre attention afin de théoriser certains processus infirmiers en lien avec la technologie aux …
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Verso una nuova postura poetica: rinascere a ogni istante
… of authors such as Nietzsche, Wittgenstein and Agamben. In particular, the fundamental role of the linguistic (and semiotic in the broad sense) device in the formation of subjective identity and its relationship with reality was examined. • Finally, a proposal for a new (eco)poetic stance was …
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