... of established practices that are fundamentally undemocratic. © 2008 Duke University Press 2008 Dara E. Goldman There’s (Always) Something about Cuba: Security and States of Exception in a Fundamentally Unsafe World ​Michael Moore firmly established himself...

... The State of Exception Goes Viral 195 the bitter rivalry over the territory with Pakistan. The BJP had often demanded that Jammu and Kashmir be treated like any other state of India, with no special protection for domiciles of the state. It was alleged by some that the BJP plan was to allow people from...

... 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. Copyright © 2019 by Duke University Press 2019 austerity state...

...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...

...Hassan M. Musa This account of the art exhibition literature in the Sudan reflects the complexity of modern political action there. The art exhibition was introduced by the colonial state as an instrument of propaganda. Post-independence authorities continued in a similar direction. Modern...

.... 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...

... 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...

... wars move beyond states of exception to take place within a con- dition of unending emergency. Walter Benjamin warned that while excep- tional moments of crisis were politically dangerous, the effective normal- ization of rule could be far more sinister. With order finally restored, what...

...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 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...

..., 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...

... has provided the Bush admin- istration with its alibi for the ‘‘war on terror’’ and other violations of the law. So it has become somewhat commonplace these days to link the actions of this administration to the logic of the ‘‘state of exception’’ first formu- lated in 1922 by Carl Schmitt...

..., and the Struggle for Global Justice (Rout- ledge, 2009), Dangerous Professors: Academic Freedom and the National Secu- rity Campus (University of Michigan Press, 2009), and Exceptional State: Contemporary U.S. Culture and the New Imperialism (Duke University Press, 2007). grant farred is a professor...

... became the last state in the continent to achieve (official) democracy. South Africa, the exceptional state by virtue of the white minority’s apartheid policies, out of place in the continent, shunned by the rest of Africa, was not only sud- denly welcomed—accepted within its (geographical) ‘‘placebut...

... succeeded. One finds thoughtprovoking challenges such as We have not yet any national policy ; We drift ; There is a lack of leadership, and, worst of all, a lack of national planning sufficiently comprehensive even to suggest any definite remedy ; with one or two outstanding exceptions, state...

.... Comparing Israeli and U.S. settler colonialisms seeks to shatter the patina of exceptionalism, as well as the “state of exception,” to use Giorgio Agamben’s term, that currently justifies the military, social, and cultural occupation of the West Bank and Gaza. Indeed, staking a claim for simi...

... or exceptional state less likely in the US—not because of liberal antibodies but because of the normality of racialized violence to the reproduction of the US capitalist state. Positing—as authors ranging from Trotsky to Ernst Bloch or the Frankfurt School had already done, but against Third International...

... the “exceptional state” (see Jefferson 2013; Graham 2010). Also, many cities in the United States, as in Europe, are experimenting with hybrid civil-criminal laws to purge city centers and pub- lic housing of the unemployed and welfare recipients guilty of being disor- derly and disreputable (Beckett...