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Session 3 – May 26, 2022
1. We reviewed the first two parts of Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Part One was mainly on the paradox of sovereignty; Part 2 was on the figure of homo sacer, the life that can be taken at will, the person that can be killed but not sacrificed, the life that […]
Session 2 – Friday, April 22
We discussed section 2 of Agamben’s Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Among the themes of our discussion were: The differences between simple biological life and politically qualified life, as it exists in a contradictory relation in the case of homo sacer, as that which is excluded from both the sacred and the profane […]
Session 1 – Thursday, March 24
This semester we are reading Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Last Thursday, we discussed the introduction and Part One, “The Logic od Sovereignty.” In particular, we spoke about the paradox of sovereignty: the sovereign as a borderline concept, being inside and outside of the juridical order. We then introduced some fundamental […]
Session 1 – Thursday, March 24, 4:00-5:00pm
Complex Thinking and the Radical Imagination Facilitators: Bruno Gullì (History) and Tony Iantosca (English) Reading: Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Translated by Daniel Heller-Roazen. Stanford University Press, 1998. Session 1 – Thursday, March 24, 4:00-5:00 pm Introduction and Part One: The Logic of Sovereignty (pp. 1-67) Available at Kingsborough Library OneSearch: […]
General plan
Complex Thinking and the Radical Imagination -facilitators: Bruno Gullì and Tony Iantosca (Reading Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life and related material) Part 1: Before the Law Sections to focus on: Potentiality and Law; Form of Law Concepts: Life and bare life; state of exception; logic of inclusion and exclusion Part 2: […]
