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...Lee Spinks The concept of the “state of exception,” which is so crucial to Giorgio Agamben's claim for the continuity between the ancient founding of the polity and modern biopolitics, enables us to rethink more local and specified historical and aesthetic changes. By examining the genre...

...-constitutive domains of power, domination, and struggle. We argue that the current state of exception in Turkey ( Olağanüstü Hal , literally meaning “extraordinary situation” and is abbreviated as OHAL) would be more fruitfully analyzed by taking into account the historical and structural relations of power...

... of Exception Goes Viral When, in May 2019, Narendra Modi was elected to a second term as prime minister, his government signaled a change of course. His first term had begun in 2014 with a promise of economic reforms to satisfy the expecta- tions of big business and the upper middle class. But the global slump...

...Gareth Williams Duke University Press 2007 Gareth Williams The Mexican Exception and the ​ ​“Other Campaign” There can be no critical consideration of diver- gence, difference, or dissidence without attend‑ ing...

... of the treatment of Guantánamo— in popular culture as well as in official policy—will reveal the underlying paradox between its supposed exceptionalism and its more permanent and quotidian role within the U.S. cultural and political landscape. The Exceptional Evolution of Guantánamo and Its Role...

... to a political-philosophical perspective might be effected and to demonstrate both the theoretical-explanatory and prescriptive-practical benefits of such a change in viewpoint. © 2008 Duke University Press 2008 Adam Thurschwell Ethical Exception: Capital Punishment in the Figure of Sovereignty...

... of practicality, a relational ontology is proposed as an alternative. The essay centers on Agamben's discussion of the animal and the Jew in the context of his books The Open and Homo Sacer . © 2007 Duke University Press 2007 Andrew Benjamin Particularity and Exceptions: On Jews and Animals...

... and not as guarantees. This elliptical procedure in analyzing this discourse recognizes the in/ability to think these except by way of thinking blackness as the other of thought, that is, as an/other thinking that is not reducible to the calculus of thought proper. Specifically, I delineate how and in what ways...

...Catherine Mills This essay examines the notion of “playing with law” that Giorgio Agamben proposes in State of Exception and, more broadly, his understanding of “play” as developed in works such as Infancy and History . In this latter text, Agamben provides his most extended discussion of play...

...Eleanor Kaufman This essay examines the way in which Giorgio Agamben's work is marked by a persistent inquiry into that space where what appears as one thing is in fact two. This dynamic characterizes his “state of exception” as well as the notion of “messianic time” central to his book...

..., the article posits the AKM as a short-lived exception, due to its construction process as a palimpsest, its potentially participatory stage design, and the temporary radical democratic gesture on its facade that emerged during the Gezi resistance. Detailing the vicious circle of building and demolishing...

... on the intensification of features normally associated with exceptional regimes. This essay updates Poulantzas’s argument to an era of finance-dominated accumulation and provides a new characterization of authoritarian neoliberal statism. References Albo Greg Fanelli Carlo . 2014 . “ Austerity against...

... the agitated political climate of the 1950s and 1960s, in their time they each signaled a conscious rupture with a certain Marxist‐Leninist theory of revolution that could not imagine the transformation of social relations except through the seizure of state power. For both thinkers, the proto‐revolutionary...

... of the 1630s was so successful. America's “Puritan” lettered city was never particularly Calvinist, religious, nor conservative, but emerged as an ongoing state of exception, marked by a kind of mosaic of secular, industrializing instincts under a pretense of Calvinism. This America radicalized the world...

... as an exceptional space of representation. Present at the heart of the exhibition apparatus, artists were equally attentive to the methodology of the exhibition as an instrument for political dissidence. After the SCP's experience, traditional political forces, such as the Umma Party, used the art exhibition...

... and autobiographical element to the legacy of political incarceration in Sudan. Yet, most of these memoirs tend to be in written form, and rarely have they been combined with visual representation or a stand-alone visual artistic work. The essay focuses on one such conspicuous exception, by zeroing in on a series...

.... In this essay, we trace the changing sovereign and exceptional strategies used by the state of Hawai`i to subordinate Kanaka Maoli, the indigenous peoples of the islands, through violence against and scientific regulation of animals. These disparate strategies converge in their consequences for making Kanaka...

... a less central role in theory than it used to, except in the form of trauma theory, whose pertinence to a host of contemporary issues continues to be d emonstrated. Questions about the nature of identity seem to have receded, as Rei Terada points out, doubtless because theoretical debates have led...

... that the exceptional politics aligned with the U.S. war on terror has put this notion of humanitarian war into crisis, this essay argues for a more nuanced reading that moves beyond limited sovereign frames of reference. Not only has the history of the liberal encounter been marked by violence in a manner in which...

... Europeans of like mind in the wake of the Russian Revolution to forge a new international order. The Bengali revolutionary M. N. Roy was one of the most exceptional figures of this type, a promoter equally of science and humanism who dedicated the latter part of his life, in fact, to promoting a “radical...