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Showing 1 to 20 of 41 for “"Giorgio Agamben"”.
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Nas sombras da contemporaneidade : da biopolítica à tanatopolítica
… acrescentamos 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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Between life and death : HIV and AIDS and representation in South Africa
… and also 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 …
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Constructing the "Other": Discursive Mechanisms at Play in the Sentencing of Post 9/11 Canadian Terrorism Cases
… been largely 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
… post-modern 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 …
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Death, Power, and the Body: A Bio-political Analysis of Death and Dying
… and death 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 …
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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 …
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Doc : a novel ; and, Dying Room : was the Wyndham Native Hospital eugenic?
… framework provided by Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben and the Catholic writer G.K. Chesterton, I will conclude that the Wyndham Native Hospital was eugenic in the Chestertonian sense insofar as it treated the inmates as economic tools and sought to manipulate their fertility, health and …
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Rhetoric of exception: signing statements, sovereignty, and the Bush presidency
… described by Carl Schmitt and criticized by Giorgio Agamben. Because signing statements work to create exceptions in the law so that the executive agencies need not enforce undesirable parts of the bill, and are persuasive through the use of arguments based on exception taking and exceptional …
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Renderings of the Abyss: some changing nineteenth-century literary perceptions of the animal / human divide.
… Derrida, Friedrich Nietzsche, Julia Kristeva and Giorgio Agamben. I consider this divide and its contents, often regarded as an abyss. The study is written like a time line, starting at the beginning of the nineteenth century and finishing at the end. I split the nineteenth century into four time …
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Quando a morte não é exceção : biopolítica, soberania, intersecções e divergências entre Mbembe e Agamben
… Soberania, 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, …
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(In)Visible
… Maria Rilke, Paul Celan, Maurice Blanchot, Giorgio Agamben, Fanny Howe, Adonis, Barbara Guest, H.D., and others. The essay engages poetry as a means of spiraling around the invisible, limitless center, and proposes, as a poetic device that enables this spiraling, the (In)Visible Image, and …
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Algorithmic Sovereignty: Machine Learning, Ground Truth, and the State of Exception
… 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 …
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Biopolitics, Borders and the Populations of Literary Space in Two Post-millennial Black British Novels: Abdulrazak Gurnah’s By the Sea and Andrea Levy’s The Long Song
… texts on biopolitics from Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben, I explore the spatial and racial management of migrant bodies and, also, the ways in which the movements of migrants form a positive biopolitics, undermining the bureaucracy of the state’s immigration controls. Ultimately, the novel …
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Waiting, Part One of a Sarajevo Novel: The Figure of the Siege and the Refugee in a Selection of Twentieth-Century Siege-Exile Literature
… which illuminate the liminal spaces that Giorgio Agamben terms ‘zones of indistinction’. The readings of The Plague and Waiting for Godot draw on Agamben's theory of modern life to analyse their depictions of the refugee and the state of exception. Postcolonial questions about the …
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The First Cut; the locus of decision at the limits of subjectivity
… Kierkegaard is the main focus of discussion. Giorgio Agamben, Michel Henry and Jacques Derrida also provide important contributions. Although for Kierkegaard ‘all decisiveness is rooted in subjectivity’, subjective agency takes the form of an active surrendering to an external unknown …
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The Trial of Reason: Political theology as the investigation of judgement
… a sacrifice. In chapter 4, I discuss the work of Giorgio Agamben, who seeks to suspend political and rational judgement altogether. Both the political and the religious is characterised by the same ‘sacred’ logic which sustains an omnipotent, but unaccountable power of judgement. Finally, in …
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Bestiaries the animal and the human in Mila Kundera's The Unbearable Lightness of Being and J.M. Coetzee's Disgrace
In his book, The Open (2004), Giorgio Agamben suggests that the border between the human and the animal passes "first of all as a mobile border within living man". At stake in the construction of this border is a division of the human and the animal into separate and homogenous groups, and …
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The Time That Belongs to God: The Christian Prohibition on Usury in the 12th-13th Centuries and the Making of the Subject of Debt
… in De contractibus alongside the work of Giorgio Agamben. The idea that usury is wrong because the usurer sells time, Olivi claims, conflates two times: common time, or the time that one ‘is;’ and proper time, or the time that one ‘has.’ What is at stake turns out to be an incapacity to …
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