Agamben's geographies of modernity |
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| Affiliation: | Department of Geography, Royal Holloway, University of London, Egham, Surrey TW20 0EX, United Kingdom;Centre for Urban Conflicts Research, The Department of Architecture, University of Cambridge, 1-5 Scroope Terrace, Cambridge, CB2 1PX, UK;Department of Geography, University of Cambridge, Downing Place, Cambridge, CB2 3EN, UK;Gdansk University of Technology, Faculty of Architecture, Narutowicza 11/12, 80-233Gdansk, Poland;University of Illinois–Chicago, 1040 W. Harrison St. M/C 147, Chicago, IL 60607, USA;Cultural Geography Chair Group, Wageningen University, PO Box 47, 6700AA Wageningen, the Netherlands;Department of Psychology, Stellenbosch University, Wilcocks Building, Ryneveld Street, Stellenbosch, 7600, South Africa |
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| Abstract: | This paper examines the geographical underpinnings of Giorgio Agamben's theory of sovereign power. Reflecting on Agamben's attempt in developing a unified theory of power, I highlight the eminently spatial nature of two of the key concepts that mark his argument: the structure of the ban and the camp as a paradigm of modern politics. In particular, I analyse how the spatialisation of biopolitics finds in the camp the ideal site for the definition of endless caesurae in the body of the nation, and for the definition of population as a merely spatial concept. I claim, therefore, that the biopolitical state machine activated by the recent war on terror is not only an autopoietic machine, but that it is also at the origin of new geographies of exception that are imposing a new nomos on global politics: a nomos within which decision is produced by a permanent state of exception, and where law exists only through its endless strategic (dis)application. |
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