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...Corey D. B. Walker This essay engages the theme of religion and the futures of blackness by critically examining the interrelationship between two normative standards in the discourse of religion and blackness: love and community. The essay proceeds by thinking love and community as risks...

... of emergency exception-norm Caesarism sovereignty crisis state of law Turkey Kemalism Islamism Kurdish movement References Agamben Giorgio . 2017 . Kutsal İnsan (Homo Sacer) . 3rd ed. Translated by Türkmen İsmail . İstanbul : Ayrıntı Yayınları . Agamben Giorgio...

... exceptional principle as the concentra- tion camp. What is distinctive about the camp in juridical terms is that it describes a space where the imbrication of the state of exception (based on the suspension of normative political logic) with law can be expressed. To be imprisoned in the camp...

... of this right as an exception to a law that is ordinarily deadly and giving it a new and augmented use as the internal norm of a law whose intrinsic pur- pose is now, precisely as a result of that augmentation, to preserve or pro- long life. The singular modernity of Beccaria’s text, from this standpoint...

... resort to the State’s constitutive outside. One is the com- missarial dictatorship of the ordinary state of exception, which suspends the law of a polity for a given period of time, only to return to the norm when the presumptive emergency is over. The other is the sovereign or revolu- tionary...

... 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...

... the exception: The classical representative of the decisionist type [of juristic thought is Thomas Hobbes, with his maxim auctoritas, non veritasfacit legem.2 The sovereign is he who has the power to decide what counts as the norm and the exception, as true and false, in the political sphere. The sov­ ereign...

..., it was presumed that Europe was this effective site, where the population of Europe enjoyed a degree of equality under a system of norms (“the rule of law whereas the colonies were the site of domination based on the appli- cation of an extranormative force of domination (i.e., the exception). Given...

... writer; and ‘Billie,’ an anorexic, bi-sexual, aspiring songwriter.” Every- one’s white except Adam, who’s African American; normatively speaking, everyone’s heterosexual except for Billie, who’s unpredictable. See www.imdb.com/title/tt0462140/ (accessed October 22, 2005...

... without end and without reserve, as the last (and perhaps desperate) guarantee of his own exceptional status in relation to the law. As a result, he becomes the 136  Gareth Williams embodiment of a zone of anomie—a páramo—in relation to a law that will become the norm for all...

... normative regime of moral, ethical, or legal judgment that one might (subsequently) apply to it. Sovereignty itself is thus, strictly speaking, not an ethical-moral concept. In that sense, the sovereign’s defining power over death is excepted from such normative regimes. Considered solely in its...

... by the reversal of the exception signified by homo sacer into a new thanatopolitical norm. Such a collapse of the distinction between exception and norm, together with the “absolute” and unmediated subjec- tion of life to death, constitutes the “supreme” political principle of geno- cide (HS, 142...

... for an age of protocol: Control in networks operates less through the exception of individuals, groups, or institutions and more through the exceptional quality of networks 500 The South Atlantic Quarterly • Summer 2012 or of their topologies. What matters...

..., actions, and practices that seemingly depart from or stand outside of what is acceptable given prevailing social norms. I want to extend Bogues’s thinking, particularly his explicit depar- ture from Agamben’s approach to the exception through a foregrounding of the colonial, wherein he focuses...

... . Neumann Franz . 1944 . Behemoth: The Structure and Practice of National Socialism, 1933-1944 . Oxford : Oxford University Press . Scheuerman William . 1994 . Between the Norm and the Exception: The Frankfurt School and the Rule of Law . Cambridge, MA : MIT Press . Schmitt Carl...

... different people, depending on the types with whom she is connected from one moment to the next. In showing us how easily an example can become an exception to the gender norm, Laura’s uncanny similarity to Ann indicates the invertibility of social hier- archy itself.15 George Eliot was clearly...

... of the constitutional order, whether written or unwritten, formal or material, normative or structural, then what we will be concerned with is something like a constitution of the constitution, following...

... ) is inextricably entangled with and presumed by the right to manifest religion, conscience, or belief in the forum externum, while the norm delimiting the forum internum and defining the forum externum (a domain of secular freedom) is itself limited by a space of exception (the category of public order...

... to neurophysiology or behavioral sciences finds itself enmeshed in a complex weave of forms, norms, and exceptional events (violence, extraneity, illnesses, and acci- dents). These scientific knowledges supply diverse resources for social and political contests over living bodies...

... sored language, one that bypasses the usual split between the spoken and the written; above all, I felt as though I had encountered a work whose rebellious nature and resis­ tance to social norms and mores confused the boundaries between poetry and politics. Soon after, I learned that the author, who...