scholarly journals Žižek, Agamben and the Idea of Democratic Biopolitics

2021 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. lxv-lxxiii
Author(s):  
Shehzad Ali
Keyword(s):  
Viable Alternative ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Community Based ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
Ordinary Citizens

Following the debate between Giorgio Agamben and Slavoj Žižek in response to the pandemic, this essay explores that the concept of ‘democratic biopolitics’ is a viable alternative to the concept of ‘populist biopolitics’. The concept problematizes the dominant intellectual sense of the pandemic (whether it is a rupture or event) by rendering that ‘heeding to the aspirations of ordinary citizens’ is the key to understandiing the pandemic. It also double-downs on the idea of Sotiris and Schubert that a community based democratic response to the pandemic should be pursued.

scholarly journals DA EXCEÇÃO AGAMBENIANA À CONSTITUIÇÃO PLANETÁRIA DE FERRAJOLI: DESAFIOS IMPOSTOS PELA PANDEMIA DO NOVO CORONAVÍRUS ÀS CATEGORIAS JURÍDICO-POLÍTICAS TRADICIONAIS

2020 ◽  
Vol 15 (1) ◽  
pp. e43057
Author(s):  
Maiquel Ângelo Dezordi Wermuth ◽  
José Luis Bolzan De Morais
Keyword(s):  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Slavoj Žižek

O artigo propõe-se a fazer uma revisão de alguns dos principais posicionamentos teóricos produzidos até o momento acerca das medidas restritivas de liberdade e do estado de emergência reconhecido em decorrência da pandemia do novo coronavírus, buscando estabelecer um diálogo entre o pensamento de diversos autores que, mesmo a partir de marcos teóricos e ferramentas conceituais diferentes, propõem-se a suscitar reflexões sobre a situação que tem se mostrado enquanto verdadeiro marco divisor de águas na história da humanidade, dada a magnitude das consequências até então mapeadas e do tensionamento de categorias jurídico-políticas tradicionais por ela posta. O texto encontra-se dividido em três seções: na primeira, busca-se estabelecer um diálogo entre as perspectivas teóricas de Giorgio Agamben e Slavoj Žižek – as quais versam sobre questão do estabelecimento de um verdadeiro estado de exceção (Agamben) e a retomada/revisitação do conceito de “comunismo” como condição de possibilidade para o enfrentamento à doença (Žižek); na segunda seção apresenta-se a perspectiva de Luigi Ferrajoli acerca da necessidade de construção de uma “Constituição planetária” para o enfrentamento das diferentes crises da contemporaneidade; esta perspectiva é colocada em diálogo, na terceira seção, com a teoria de Delmas-Marty, pensada enquanto condição de possibilidade para dar concretude ao anseio do jurista italiano.

scholarly journals "W zwierciadle mroczne i niejasne". Alternatywne quasi-biografie św. Pawła w lustrze filozofii (Jacob Taubes, Alain Badiou, Giorgio Agamben, Slavoj Žižek, Emmanuel Carrère)

2018 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 11
Author(s):  
Rafał Tomasz Szczerbakiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Alain Badiou ◽  
Slavoj Žižek

<p>Przedmiotem artykułu jest znaczące przekształcenie kulturowego obrazu historycznej postaci w związku z ideologicznym wpływem dominujących na przełomie XX i XXI wieku mód kulturowych i ideologii. Tkwiąca w człowieku narracyjna skłonność jest zarazem potrzebą nieustannego korygowania znanych z historii opowieści o wybitnych dziejowych postaciach – ich osobowościach, motywacjach, czynach (swoisty retelling rekapitulizujący znane i weryfikowalne bądź mityczne ich losy).</p>

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 177-184
Author(s):  
Ole Jakob Løland
Keyword(s):  
Recent Work ◽  
Friedrich Nietzsche ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Alain Badiou ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
Christian Culture ◽  
Pauline Epistles ◽  
German Speaking ◽  
The Way

Paul is a figure through whom Jacob Taubes can discern his true disagreement with his intellectual opponents, such as Friedrich Nietzsche. The Pauline epistles provide some perspectives for Taubes to reconsider the Christian culture that shaped his identity as a German-speaking Jew in a post-Holocaust Europe. These texts are useful for this particular reader to reconsider history without ever fully separating it from philosophy. The contemporary philosophical turn to Paul, considered by taking Taubes as its prime example, can partly be explained by these philosophers’ (Taubes, Badiou, Agamben, Žižek) attraction to Paul as an antinomian figure, a figure of lawlessness and freedom from law that can lead to apocalyptic violence (for Taubes) or pave the way for an existential and political break with the domain of law, as in the philosophies of Alain Badiou and Slavoj Žižek. While these two continental philosophers draw upon other readings of the apostle than Taubes’s, Giorgio Agamben bases his readings of Paul on several aspects in Taubes’s works. Nonetheless, the call from Taubes to reinterpret Paul through Freud and Nietzsche is more consistently followed in the recent work of Ward Blanton.

scholarly journals Ana Paula Maia e a literatura de autoria feminina: mulheres no seu (in)devido lugar

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lígia de Amorim Neves ◽  
Lúcia Osana Zolin
Keyword(s):  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Slavoj Žižek

Resumo O objetivo geral do artigo é problematizar, a partir das novelas Entre rinhas de cachorros e porcos abatidos (2009) e O trabalho sujo dos outros (2009), bem como dos romances Carvão animal (2011), De gados e homens (2013) e Assim na terra como embaixo da terra (2017), de Ana Paula Maia, o modo como sua escrita literária reverbera no campo literário de autoria feminina e promove subversões ideológicas e estéticas na órbita das produções literárias contemporâneas. O aporte teórico é constituído pelos conceitos de biopolítica, de Giorgio Agamben; a tríade imaginário, simbólico e real, de Slavoj Žižek; e o referente ausente, de Carol Adams.

scholarly journals One Divided by Another

2012 ◽  
pp. 189-207
Author(s):  
Luca Di Blasi
Keyword(s):  
Saint Paul ◽  
Giorgio Agamben ◽  
Pier Paolo Pasolini ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Alain Badiou ◽  
Christian Churches ◽  
Slavoj Žižek

While Christian churches dramatically lost ground during the last decades (at least in European societies), in this very period one of the major Christian figures, Saint Paul, attracted the interest of leading ‘progressive’ intellectuals and philosophers like Pier Paolo Pasolini, Alain Badiou, Slavoj Žižek, or Giorgio Agamben. In the following text, by focusing on Pasolini and his uncompleted film project San Paolo, I will concentrate on the notion of the split.

Interpassivity and Misdemeanours: The Art of Thinking in Examples and the Žižekian Toolbox

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Robert Pfaller
Keyword(s):  
Specific Role ◽  
Slavoj Zizek ◽  
Slavoj Žižek ◽  
The Sublime

Starting from a passage from Slavoj Žižek`s brilliant book The Sublime Object of Ideology, the very passage on canned laughter that gave such precious support for the development of the theory of interpassivity, this chapter examines a question that has proved indispensable for the study of interpassivity: namely, what does it mean for a theory to proceed by examples? What is the specific role of the example in certain example-friendly theories, for example in Žižek’s philosophy?

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