Beyond a Sovereign State of Exception

2019 ◽  
pp. 16-39
Author(s):  
Jonathan White
Keyword(s):  
State Of Exception ◽  
Executive Power ◽  
Sovereign State ◽  
Specific Mode ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
European Crisis ◽  
Original Contribution ◽  
Core Features

Central to the imagery of European crisis politics in the 2010s was the figure of the Troika. Though on one level just a term of public condemnation, on another it encapsulated some deeper truths about the politics of the time. Specifically, the concept of the Troika expressed a politics based on ostensibly impermanent, unconventional arrangements for defined purposes, governed by an agenda of speed and urgency, and propelled by trans-institutional executive power. Taken together, these features amount to a specific mode of governing, one usefully grasped with the concept of emergency rule. The chapter outlines its core features and dynamics. Such a perspective is intended to offer an original contribution to EU scholarship and a starting-point for thinking about the specificities of transnational emergency rule.

scholarly journals Borgerkrig fra Athen til Auschwitz:

2015 ◽  
pp. 37-54
Author(s):  
Mikkel Flohr
Keyword(s):  
Civil War ◽  
Ancient Greece ◽  
Vantage Point ◽  
The State ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
Sovereign Power ◽  
Western History ◽  
Sovereign State ◽  
Homo Sacer ◽  
Starting Point

The starting point of this article is the concept of civil war in Giorgio Agamben’s Homo Sacer-series. In spite of its relative obscurity, Agamben insists that civil war is the fundamental political structure, which has characterized all of Western history since Ancient Greece. As such it constitutes a privileged vantage point from whence it is possible to discern the limitations of his political thought. These limitations originate in his deployment of Carl Schmitt’s state of exception, which serves to include civil war in the sovereign order – this entails that classical modes of political contestation and conflict e.g. revolution, are always already internal to the sovereign state, and can therefore only serve to reaffirm it. The state of exception thus produces an inherent incapacity to think or move beyond the sovereign state. Agamben subsequently attempts to challenge the state of exception albeit with varying degrees of success. This suggest the necessity of taking exception to the exception and explode the conceptual coupling of civil war and sovereign power, in order to create a space where it is possible to think political contestation within or beyond the works of Agamben.

Sovereign Exception, Destructive Exception

2020 ◽  
pp. 87-95
Author(s):  
Willy Thayer
Keyword(s):  
Philosophy Of History ◽  
The State ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
State Of Emergency ◽  
Sovereign State ◽  
Rule Making

This chapter discusses Walter Benjamin's “Theses on the Philosophy of History,” which refers to a regime of sovereign representation where the state of emergency is the rule. It explains the paradigm of sovereignty that is constituted teleologically from exception, as the foundation and conservation of representational regimes. For Benjamin, the state of emergency is equivalent to “progress as a historical norm.” The chapter also looks at the commissary-sovereign state of exception that is functional to a policing critique and a politics whose prerogative is to put the regimes of representation into crisis. It analyzes a prerogative that subsumes the destructive character of the exception within a dialectical concentration of the rule, making the spectrality of destruction a function of the system of representation.

Sovereignty, Governmentality and Development in Ayub's Pakistan: the Case of Korangi Township

2011 ◽  
Vol 45 (1) ◽  
pp. 131-157 ◽  
Author(s):  
MARKUS DAECHSEL
Keyword(s):  
Final Analysis ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
Executive Power ◽  
Sovereign Power ◽  
Historical Ethnography ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Slum Dwellers ◽  
City Planner ◽  
Sustained Effort ◽  
Development Failure

AbstractThis paper uses a historical ethnography of the construction of Korangi Township outside Karachi to analyse the configuration of power in the post-colonial Pakistani state of the late 1950s and 1960s. Foucault's distinction between ‘sovereign’, ‘disciplinary’ and ‘security’ power helps to reveal how possibilities of non-interventionist control were deliberately discarded in favour of an (often theatrical) exercise of ‘raw’ power. The way in which the township was conceived by the international architect and city planner, C. A. Doxiadis, often stood in contrast and tension with the ways in which it was executed by General Ayub Khan's military regime (1958–1968). Rapid early success—tens of thousands of refugee slum dwellers were resettled within six months—went hand-in-hand with equally-quick failure and abandonment later on. The Pakistani regime was only interested in demonstrating its ability to make decisions and to deploy executive power over its territory, but it made no sustained effort to use spatial control to entangle its subjects in a web of ‘governmentality’. In the final analysis, the post-colonial Pakistani state was a ‘state of exception’ made permanent, which deliberately enacted development failure to underscore its overreliance on sovereign power.

scholarly journals DEATH IN THE POLITICAL PHILOSOPHY OF J. DERRIDA: TERRORISM, SECRECY, DEATH PENALTY AND THE CRISIS OF THE MODERN NATIONAL STATE

2021 ◽  
Vol 17 (2) ◽  
pp. 184-197
Author(s):  
George Bakhtin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Death Penalty ◽  
Capital Punishment ◽  
Nation State ◽  
Sovereign State ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Enlightenment Project ◽  
The Moment ◽  
Integral Feature ◽  
Modern Nation State

The article outlines the main crisis points and trends in the development of the modern nation-state. Special attention is paid to the consideration of the phenomenon of terrorism as an inevitable product of the Enlightenment project. The coronavirus pandemic has made the problem points more relevant, calling into question not only the essence of democracies, but also the irreversibility of the processes of globalization. The author suggests following the logic of the argumentation of the French philosopher J. Derrida, who preferred to deconstruct the power discourse in order to find an answer to the question: how and to what extent is it possible to combat violence and terror, the products of modern Western civilization. The article consistently examines the prerequisites for understanding death not only as a secret rooted in antiquity and associated with the classical paradigm of philosophizing, phenomenology, Heideggerianism and existentialism, but also as an economy of mourning for the dead, which is close to psychologism and Freudianism. The focus is concentrated on the study of the mechanisms of the sovereign state that help it to claim comprehensive possession of the moment of death for a person sentenced to death. Capital punishment - an instrument of control on the part of sovereignty - is interpreted as the core of the theological and political tradition that determines the orthogenesis of any nation-state. Finally, the author considers the concept of the “heart of the other” as a starting point for the fight against abuse and for debunking phantasms and illusions that are an integral feature of the modern political organism. It is the deconstruction of the death penalty that is the key subject touched upon by the author of the article.

scholarly journals The Dynamics of Eros: Teenagers and Socialization to Sexuality in Italian Atypical Families

2016 ◽  
Vol 1 (4) ◽  
pp. 200
Author(s):  
Francesco Iovine ◽  
Giuseppe Masullo
Keyword(s):  
Literature Review ◽  
Gender And Sexuality ◽  
Adopted Children ◽  
Educational Strategies ◽  
Internal Dynamics ◽  
Specific Mode ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Family Types ◽  
Children’S Sexuality ◽  
Depth Interviews

This paper aims at analysing the ways in which parents / adults and natural and adopted children, within nuclear and atypical families communicate and operate modes, dynamics, and experiences related to teenagers' intimate sphere. To this aim, our analysis identifies the different variables at play and their interrelation in defining the various modalities employed in different family types. The transition from the patriarchal to the “emotional” family has caused important changes related not only to the family's internal dynamics, but also to the autonomy of its individual members, particularly with regard to the sexual sphere. The starting point is a specific reflection on the sexuality of adolescents who, as we try to prove through the literature review, in this era is open to new forms of empowerment and emancipation that cause parents'/adults' educational strategies and models to be rethought. We pay particular attention to the rules by which the children's sexuality is managed in atypical families – particularly disrupted and / or recombined ones – in which it is possible to observe, as shown by in-depth interviews to parents, specific mode that escape any efforts of categorisation and cast new light on the dynamics underlying the socialisation of gender and sexuality in contemporary families.

scholarly journals Neoliberal Development and Struggle Against It: The Importance of Social Class, Mystification and Feasibility

Aula Abierta ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 433
Author(s):  
Alpesh Maisuria
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Critical Importance ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Neoliberal Development ◽  
Core Features ◽  
The Way

ABSTRACTIn this article I introduce and develop neoliberalism through a discussion of Marxism and the way that classed mystification and feasibility are crucial concepts for understanding the maintenance of neoliberalism, and revolutionary possibilities. The starting point for this article is an essential explication of the Marxism, which is argued as the most efficacious theoretical framework for understanding the current historical conjuncture. Then, I provide an understanding of the development of capitalism into its current neoliberal form and its core features. Doing this work is important because while scholars regularly refer to capitalism/neoliberalism, they rarely explicate its  fundamentals. Having this specification will provide a referent for the analysis for the discussion in the article. This incorporates the question: what mechanisms generate the tendency for most people to acquiesce (or even assent) to neoliberalism, despite the inequality and inequality it creates? To address this, I suggest the critical importance of mystification. While exposing neoliberalism is important I argue that analysis and critique alone is not sufficient. I draw the article to a close by presenting a discussion about the importance of the feasibility of an alternative to neoliberalism to be promoted by critical educators and Marxists. The possibility of resistance and revolution emerges through constructing, what Gramsci called, a new conception of the world.Keywords: Neoliberalism, Marxism, Marx, Social Class, Revolution.RESUMENEn este artículo, presento y desarrollo el neoliberalismo a través de una discusión sobre el marxismo y la forma en que la mistificación y la factibilidad clasificadas son conceptos cruciales para comprender el mantenimiento del neoliberalismo y también las posibilidades revolucionarias. El punto de partida de este artículo es una explicación esencial del marxismo, que se argumenta como el marco teórico más eficaz para comprender la coyuntura histórica actual. A continuación, proporciono una comprensión del desarrollo del capitalismo en su forma neoliberal actual y sus características principales. Hacer este trabajo es importante porque a menudo, cuando los académicos se refieren al capitalismo / neoliberalismo, rara vez explican sus fundamentos. Tener esta especificación proporcionará una referencia para el análisis de la discusión en el artículo. Esto incorpora la pregunta: ¿qué mecanismos generan la tendencia de la mayoría de las personas a aceptar el neoliberalismo a pesar de la desigualdad que crea? Para abordar esto, sugiero dotar de mayor importancia la crítica de la mistificación. A este respecto considero que si bien la exposición al neoliberalismo es importante, sostengo que el análisis y la crítica por sí solos no son suficientes. Concluyo el artículo presentando una discusión sobre la importancia de la viabilidad de una alternativa al neoliberalismo para ser promovida por educadores críticos y marxistas. La posibilidad de resistencia y revolución emerge a través de la construcción, lo que Gramsci llamó, una nueva concepción del mundo.Palabras Clave: Neoliberalismo, Marxismo, Marx, Clase Social, Revolución.

The Borders of Corruption

2016 ◽  
pp. 1-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Rebecca R. Fiske
Keyword(s):  
Legal Order ◽  
State Of Exception ◽  
Executive Power ◽  
The Political ◽  
Constitutional Rights ◽  
Political Consequences ◽  
Form Of Government ◽  
Politics And Law ◽  
The Relationship ◽  
The U.S

The U.S. has been in a state of exception now for many years, and there appears to be no end in sight. There exists an entire generation who has know life under only this form of government, one that, as Giorgio Agamben explains, takes “a position at the limit between politics and law…an ambiguous, uncertain, borderline fringe, at the intersection of the legal and the political.” In the name of security, the characteristic limiting of constitutional rights, the sanctioning of torture, and the proliferating of NSA surveillance are fast becoming the norm. Recently, much has been written concerning the bio-political consequences of an endless state of exception in which the executive power trumps the judiciary, and a new legal order emerges. This chapter will consider the relationship between corruption and the permanent state of exception.

Introducing Philosophy to the Classroom in the Sixth Century CE

2020 ◽  
pp. 1-22
Author(s):  
Pieter d’Hoine
Keyword(s):  
Review Paper ◽  
Sixth Century ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Original Contribution ◽  
Commentary Tradition

Abstract Taking the recent publication of Sebastian Gertz’ translation of three late Platonic Introductions by Elias, David and Olympiodorus as a starting point, this review paper provides an assessment of Gertz’ translation and textual choices. In addition, it also provides an original contribution to the study of these texts by proposing an emendation of David’s text, and by discussing some of the source-texts of the three Introductions and of their parallels in the ancient commentary tradition. One case elaborated on in somewhat greater detail concerns Olympiodorus’ arguments against scepticism.

scholarly journals Neoliberal Development and Struggle Against It: The Importance of Social Class, Mystification and Feasibility

Aula Abierta ◽  
2018 ◽  
Vol 47 (4) ◽  
pp. 433
Author(s):  
Alpesh Maisuria
Keyword(s):  
Social Class ◽  
Theoretical Framework ◽  
Critical Importance ◽  
Starting Point ◽  
Neoliberal Development ◽  
Core Features ◽  
The Way

ABSTRACTIn this article I introduce and develop neoliberalism through a discussion of Marxism and the way that classed mystification and feasibility are crucial concepts for understanding the maintenance of neoliberalism, and revolutionary possibilities. The starting point for this article is an essential explication of the Marxism, which is argued as the most efficacious theoretical framework for understanding the current historical conjuncture. Then, I provide an understanding of the development of capitalism into its current neoliberal form and its core features. Doing this work is important because while scholars regularly refer to capitalism/neoliberalism, they rarely explicate its  fundamentals. Having this specification will provide a referent for the analysis for the discussion in the article. This incorporates the question: what mechanisms generate the tendency for most people to acquiesce (or even assent) to neoliberalism, despite the inequality and inequality it creates? To address this, I suggest the critical importance of mystification. While exposing neoliberalism is important I argue that analysis and critique alone is not sufficient. I draw the article to a close by presenting a discussion about the importance of the feasibility of an alternative to neoliberalism to be promoted by critical educators and Marxists. The possibility of resistance and revolution emerges through constructing, what Gramsci called, a new conception of the world.Keywords: Neoliberalism, Marxism, Marx, Social Class, Revolution.RESUMENEn este artículo, presento y desarrollo el neoliberalismo a través de una discusión sobre el marxismo y la forma en que la mistificación y la factibilidad clasificadas son conceptos cruciales para comprender el mantenimiento del neoliberalismo y también las posibilidades revolucionarias. El punto de partida de este artículo es una explicación esencial del marxismo, que se argumenta como el marco teórico más eficaz para comprender la coyuntura histórica actual. A continuación, proporciono una comprensión del desarrollo del capitalismo en su forma neoliberal actual y sus características principales. Hacer este trabajo es importante porque a menudo, cuando los académicos se refieren al capitalismo / neoliberalismo, rara vez explican sus fundamentos. Tener esta especificación proporcionará una referencia para el análisis de la discusión en el artículo. Esto incorpora la pregunta: ¿qué mecanismos generan la tendencia de la mayoría de las personas a aceptar el neoliberalismo a pesar de la desigualdad que crea? Para abordar esto, sugiero dotar de mayor importancia la crítica de la mistificación. A este respecto considero que si bien la exposición al neoliberalismo es importante, sostengo que el análisis y la crítica por sí solos no son suficientes. Concluyo el artículo presentando una discusión sobre la importancia de la viabilidad de una alternativa al neoliberalismo para ser promovida por educadores críticos y marxistas. La posibilidad de resistencia y revolución emerge a través de la construcción, lo que Gramsci llamó, una nueva concepción del mundo.Palabras Clave: Neoliberalismo, Marxismo, Marx, Clase Social, Revolución.

scholarly journals SANG KLONING YANG KUASA PRODUKSI DAN REPRODUKSI BARE LIFE DALAM FILM US

2021 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Abi Ihsanullah ◽  
Badri Badri ◽  
Winda Eka Pahla Ayuningtyas
Keyword(s):  
State Of Exception ◽  
Special Treatment ◽  
The Political ◽  
Bare Life ◽  
Political Movement ◽  
Sovereign State ◽  
Political Issues ◽  
The Government ◽  
American Society ◽  
The Impact

The aims of this study are to reveal how the forming processes of sovereignty through state of exception so it appears bare life, and how homo sacer attempt to face sovereign state in US movie. This analyses are focuses on political issues in American society under American government which is reflected in US movie. Political issues are taken up by analyzing the political movement which is taken by the goverment. After analyzing the political policies taken by the government, this research will reveal production and reproduction through state of exception in creating sovereign state. State of exception refers to ethnic and racist. This research uses of Jordan Peele's US movie and theory of sovereign & bare life according to Giorgio Agamben. This research applies descriptive qualitative method. The findings are the government gives different treatment to their citizens. The government gives special treatment to the society in general, while they exception and discrimination against the tethered. Exception and discrimination are the impact of the adaptation of law in order to fulfill the society needs.

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