Homo Sacer Series (1995–2014)

Giorgio Agamben (1942–) radicalizes Foucault and Arendt: modern politics founded on exclusion of bare life.

Bare Life (zoē) vs Qualified Life (bios)

zoē (biological life) excluded from polis — homo sacer: sacred man who can be killed but not sacrificed.

The production of bare life is the originary activity of sovereign power.

State of Exception

Sovereign decides on exception (Schmitt); in modernity, exception becomes rule (camps, Guantánamo, pandemic measures).

Messianic Time

Pauline deactivation (katargein) of the law — not destruction but suspension, opening inoperativity.

Influences critical theory, biopolitics, political theology.