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...Margherita Long Abstract This essay introduces three works of post-Fukushima Japanese literature, by Hayashi Kyoko (1930–2017), Kimura Yusuke (1970–) and Kobayashi Erika (1978–), to offer an environmental humanities alternative to Giorgio Agamben's response to COVID-19. Politically, Hayashi...

... Schmitt's discussion. Most notably, Giorgio Agamben, in his book State of Exception , argues that a state of exception represents a peculiar state that “is neither external nor internal to the juridical order, and the problem of defining it concerns precisely a threshold, or a zone of indifference, where...

..., Mayumo Inoue and Steve Choe, situate their efforts within a lineage of 1990s deconstructive and genealogical critiques of Asian studies—most notably represented by the writings of Rey Chow and Naoki Sakai, both of whom are featured among the contributors. The work of Giorgio Agamben is frequently cited...

... one to build up the linkage between sovereignty and biopolitics. According to him, it takes two basic forms of disciplining of individual bodies and of organizing the population for the sole purpose of serving the state's power. For biopolitics in Giorgio Agamben's concept of “bare life,” see...

.... 87 Ibid., 66; Turse, “Experimental Dreams,” 150–51 . 88 Turse, “Experimental Dreams,” 139, 151–56 . 89 Ahuja, Bioinsecurities , 69–70 . References Agamben, Giorgio . Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life , translated by Daniel Heller-Roazen . Stanford, CA...

... of the Other , 21 . 22 Chow, Not Like a Native Speaker , 6–7 . 23 Butler, Excitable Speech , 28 . 24 Ibid., 6. 25 Ibid., 41. References Agamben, Giorgio . State of Exception , translated by Kevin Attell . Chicago : University of Chicago Press , 2005...

... characteristics. Indeed, scholars in Chinese film and media studies have offered insightful analyses of the aesthetics and the politics of The World . For example, Tonglin Lu deploys Giorgio Agamben's theory of dispostif (understood as technologies and administration) and contredispositif to argue that Jia...

... Socrates speak of poiêsis (at least the mimetic kind) as a “maiming of the faculty of thinking [ lôbê . . . dianoias ]”; Plato, Republic 10.595b5–6 . See also Havelock, Preface to Plato , chap. 1. References Agamben, Giorgio . The End of the Poem: Studies in Poetics . Stanford, CA...