Homo Sacer Series (1995β2014)
Giorgio Agamben (1942β) radicalizes Foucault and Arendt: modern politics founded on exclusion of bare life.
Bare Life (zoΔ) vs Qualified Life (bios)
zoΔ (biological life) excluded from polis β 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, GuantΓ‘namo, pandemic measures).
Messianic Time
Pauline deactivation (katargein) of the law β not destruction but suspension, opening inoperativity.
Influences critical theory, biopolitics, political theology.