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Syntax Advanced Search. Jessica Whyte. Theory and Event 13 1 Giorgio Agamben in Continental Philosophy. Edit this record. Mark as duplicate. Find it on Scholar. Request removal from index. Revision history. Download options PhilArchive copy.

From the Publisher via CrossRef no proxy muse. Configure custom resolver. Kristof van Baarle - - Dissertation, Universitet Gent. And the clothes we wear in this world, those too we will wear there.

Everything will be as it is now, just a little different. Nonetheless, in offering a vision of the world to come that is intimately connected to our world, it seems to foreshadow the possibility of changing our world, even if, as it were, only a little. And yet, as this tale was passed down by tradition, and ultimately passed from Gershom Scholem to Benjamin to Bloch, the question of the nature of the change that would be required, and that of the agency that could accomplish it, received different, and often contradictory, emphases.

All that is necessary to establish this new world, Bloch suggests, is the slight displacement of a stone, a cup or a brush. Over the past decade, as human rights discourses have increasingly served to legitimize state militarism, a growing number of thinkers have sought to engage critically with the human rights project and its anthropological foundations Over the past decade, as human rights discourses have increasingly served to legitimize state militarism, a growing number of thinkers have sought to engage critically with the human rights project and its anthropological foundations.

In contrast to Ranciere, I will argue that far from sharing the position of those thinkers, like Arendt, who seek to respond to the modern erosion of the borders between politics and life by resurrecting earlier forms of separation, Agamben sees the collapse of this border as the condition of possibility of a new, non-juridical politics. Bartleby, a legal scribe who does not write, is best known for the formula More Info: Theory and Event Publisher: muse.

The audience at this elite university overflowed The audience at this elite university overflowed the auditorium into a nearby room, watching through a video link. More Info: Overland, In a letter to his patron Lord Chesterfield, Johnson outlined the struggle he saw facing him, the possible futility of which he acknowledged, in distinctly biopolitical terms. The prince, Foucault notes, must cure the ills of the city, while the doctor must give his opinion on the ills of the soul as well as the body.

Sovereign, doctor, lexicographer—merely an analogy, perhaps, but one which, nonetheless, suggests that the attempt to impose order on language is not without its bio political significance.

No Credible Photographic Interest: Photography restrictions and surveillance in a time of terror more. This article examines the consequences for the res publica of the simultaneous increase in state surveillance and the restriction of the right to take photographs in public ushered in by the War on Terror. We draw on Ariella Azoulay's We draw on Ariella Azoulay's theorization of what she terms the 'civil contract of photography', or the possibility for non-state civic interaction allowed by the invention of the camera.

The article asks whether these developments signify an attempt to monopolize the decision as to who constitutes the citizenry of photography, and also considers artistic and political responses to surveillance and photography restrictions in Australia and the United Kingdom.

More Info: Co-authored with Daniel Palmer. Faculty of Art and Design, Monash University. Publication Name: Philosophy of Photography. Its Silent Working Was a Delusion more. Contesting Realities more. This paper, in contrast, will examine what is missed in the rush to accept membership of the reality based community. It will suggest that the advisor's comments express something that was once a central tenet of the left: the belief that political action is capable of transforming reality.

Today, on the left, this belief has been all but abandoned in the face of a seemingly unstoppable onslaught of free market capitalism and increasingly repressive state power. This paper will ask what it would mean today to begin to re-imagine political action as capable of remaking the world.

Law, Crisis, Revolution more. Australian Feminist Law. Publication Date: Jan 1, Dupain's experience, selected from a raft of similar ones, Dupain's experience, selected from a raft of similar ones, points to contemporary anxieties generated by the proliferation of photographic technologies in the age of digital reproduction and distribution. The contemporary combination of ubiquitous photographic technologies - most noticeably mobile phone cameras - and vastly increased opportunities for distribution over the internet has embroiled the issue of photography in public in controversy.

As the discourse of crisis that surrounds unauthorised photography leads to an increasing criminalisation of practices that were once deemed innocuous, we are encouraged to conceptualise ourselves as victims of [photographic] injury. By calling in the state to protect us from such injury, however, the push for photography restrictions obscures the state's capacity to injure, and entrenches new levels of disempowerment and depoliticisation.

Erasing the Line, or, the Politics of the Border more. Publisher: ephemeraweb. In this collective effort, which follows our participation in the autonomous and borderless think-tank of the ephemera conference held on the Trans-Siberian train, we propose a politically efficacious way forward to create new forms of In this collective effort, which follows our participation in the autonomous and borderless think-tank of the ephemera conference held on the Trans-Siberian train, we propose a politically efficacious way forward to create new forms of resistance.

Our argument is that a specific political action to eliminate borders would mean a radical challenge, not only to the capitalist system, but, to our old views on a range of issues. Book Reviews. Following the previous global financial crisis, as predictions of the end of neoliberalism were confounded, certain critics used the metaphor of the zombie to describe the undead existence of an ideology that refused to be consigned to Following the previous global financial crisis, as predictions of the end of neoliberalism were confounded, certain critics used the metaphor of the zombie to describe the undead existence of an ideology that refused to be consigned to the grave.

Zombie neoliberalism was an exhausted project, perversely persistent yet lacking vitality. What succeeded the crisis, however, was not the dispatching of this staggering corpse, but the ascendancy of an authoritarian, misogynistic, and sometimes white supremacist Right whose relation to neoliberalism appeared obscure.

Whyte Review of Humanitarian Wars? Lies and Brainwashing by R. LSF was founded in the mids by the French leadership of the humanitarian Names matter, and the name "genocide" matters more than most. The peculiar title of Bruce Yet, this highly revealing name also reflects the calculated indifference towards the fate of civilians that has been such a prominent feature of the recent wars fought by major military powers. In , the Austrian socialist legal scholar Anton Menger wrote a text advocating the right of workers to the full proceeds of their labour.

In translating socialism into the language of basic rights, Menger became a pioneer of what two Indeed, while the reception of Agamben's work in the English-speaking world was bound up with the events that seemed to Indeed, while the reception of Agamben's work in the English-speaking world was bound up with the events that seemed to confirm its central theses -- the war on terror and the suspensions of basic rights it entailed, the opening of internment camps for unauthorized immigrants, etc.

While it led to enormous interest in his work across a range of disciplines, it tended also to obscure the underlying philosophical claims about the nature of Western politics and metaphysics that provided the horizon of intelligibility for his more provocative arguments.

Abbott's book is indicative of a shift of register that has sought instead to interrogate the philosophical stakes of Agamben's work. To treat Agamben as a political theorist who makes factual claims about events in the world, Abbott argues, is to misunderstand him.

Agambenian concepts like "bare life" and the "state of exception," he argues, are largely unintelligible if understood sociologically. Instead, Abbott develops a compelling and philosophically sophisticated account of Agamben as engaged in the practice of "political ontology" -- that is, an interrogation of the political stakes of the very fact of the existence of the world. Miguel Vatter The republic of the living: Biopolitics and the critique of civil society Contemporary Political Theory more.

In the The Republic of the Living, Miguel Vatter offers an original and provocative intervention into the burgeoning field of biopolitical theory. Blog Posts and Media.

Chile Reborn: Rewriting the 'Constitution of Liberty' more. To date people have died from the virus, and responses to it are profoundly transforming social and economic life.

All around us events take place that Yet much continues to feel all too familiar: the under-resourcing of public health systems; the rush to xenophobia and border controls; the fast-tracking of online education; and the disproportionate health risks faced by displaced people and informal workers, many of whom already lack basic medical care and whose livelihoods are now threatened by enforced lockdowns.

The Morals of the Market more. According to a dominant view, neoliberal emphases on competitive markets and austerity are self-evidently at odds with human rights. Conference announcements.

Are Human Rights Neoliberal? However, most of that scholarship maintains a narrow Eurocentric perspective. This event explores the relationship between human rights and neoliberalism by looking at the broader international context in which both movements came to prominence. We will consider 1 how anti-colonialists mobilised the language of human rights to support national liberation struggles, demands for economic restructuring, and social and cultural security; and 2 how neoliberal thinkers and politicians themselves marshalled the language of human rights to counter-attack those struggles for political and economic self-determination.

Lecture 2: "Powerless Companions or Fellow Travellers? Far from simply vacating the economic field, LSF mobilised human rights explicitly against Third Worldist demands for post-colonial economic redistribution. LSF's human rights warriors were not powerless companions of the rising neoliberalism, but enthusiastic fellow travellers. Redistributive Human Rights more. This workshop aims to consider the different ways in which the language and frameworks of human rights have been deployed and mobilized both to make redistribute justice claims or to contest economic inequalities, but also to close down This workshop aims to consider the different ways in which the language and frameworks of human rights have been deployed and mobilized both to make redistribute justice claims or to contest economic inequalities, but also to close down political discussions around distributional questions and crush Third World demands for global wealth redistribution.

We hope to interrogate, why and how, at specific moments and in specific places, human rights movements and NGOs operated as either " powerless companions " or as " fellow travellers " to elitist economic agendas as well as to excavate moments when rights movements committed to companionships of solidarity based on building the power of the marginalized.

We invite papers that seek to understand the historical, political and economic conditions in which rights frameworks function. This workshop aims to build on and extend current debates about the relationship between human rights and economic inequality.

We hope to enrich these discussions by paying attention to the complex and varied nature of human rights movements, the historical contingency of human rights frameworks and the differing visions and forms of rights. In doing so, we aim to deepen understandings of the " distributional imagination and political economy " of human rights. We welcome engagements with the thematic of the workshop from the perspective of multiple disciplines: philosophy, political theory, sociology, law and legal theory, history, and anthropology.

Workshop: Inventing Collateral Damage more. In the paradigmatic U. Santner, University of Chicago and Prof. Rob Watts. Follow me Follow me. Book Chapters Whyte J, , ''The king reigns but he doesn't govern': Thinking sovereignty and government with Agamben, Foucault and Rousseau', in Agamben and Law , pp. Whyte J, , '"Always on top"? Books Whyte J, , 'The king reigns but he doesn? Whyte J, , 'The work of men is not durable: History, Haiti and the rights of man', in , pp.