Homo Sacer - not too long; still didn't read
July 21, 2024 8:39 PM Subscribe
Never got around to reading Homo Sacer? Me either. So I watched this animatic. But consider, in the next election, when you pick a Sovereign, you're also picking who gets to be Bios, and who gets to be Zoë.
Homo Sacer reviewed in a YouTube video essay, The link that started this post AGAMBEN HOMO SACER ANIMATIC, Homo Sacer slide deck
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Agamben never sat right with me, even as I was educated in fields that were heavily influenced by his work. It took COVID and reading Benjamin Bratton's Revenge of the Real to understand why. As Bratton wrote for Verso:
Agamben explicitly rejects all pandemic-mitigation measures on behalf of an ‘embrace tradition, refuse modernity’ conviction which denies the relevance of a biology that is real regardless of the words used to name it. Something seems to have recently cracked open for him, and yet at the same time, re-reading his foundational texts in the light of the pandemic pieces is illuminating. His position has not suddenly changed. It was there all along.posted by criticalyeast at 11:42 PM on July 21, 2024 [3 favorites]
Well this settles it, bears definitely can't vote.
posted by grumpybear69 at 12:25 PM on July 24, 2024
posted by grumpybear69 at 12:25 PM on July 24, 2024
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