Notes for 9 February 2016
LITCS 114
Teaching Associate: Patrick Mooney
Bldg. 494, room 160B
Winter 2016
- Agamben's Homo Sacer
- OK, so how's this actually relevant?
- What does this theoretical construct get us?
- How does this connect to our previous conversations about power?
- Where can we see Agambenian politics playing out in contemporary politics?
- In terms of the reduction of value of life?
- Of the state of exception?
- Of definitions of citizenship?
- Of
zones of indistinction?
- About the goals of moves to collapse βίος into ζωή?
- What other questions do you have? (Agamben produced a dense text, and you got the end of it. It's absolutely OK to admit you have questions.)
- What locations or situations are analogous to Agamben's description of
the camp
?
- Today's whiteboard snapshots