Is “sovereign” a left wing concept? (asking honestly)
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...deconstruct it (Derrida Beast & the Sovereign seminars, Butler Precarious Life; Psychic Life of Power) & think collective life organised on non-sovereign logics (Hardt & Negri Commonwealth; Assembly). I think Agamben heads there too with Coming Community
The genealogy and critique of sovereignty is one of the core goals of Agamben’s Homo Sacer project, too. And in the final two volumes he attempts to construct an alternative.
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Homo Sacer makes the task of overcoming sovereignty so very difficult. If sov./HS couple is traced back to the presuppositional structure of thought it will take nothing less than the invention of new language & thought structures. I am hoping Use of Bodies will have more leads.
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I have been reading Agamben for several years now & I have the hardest time with his concepts. I have read much of the secondary literature around the Homi Sacer series to get a sense of how these concepts can be built on & I see the same sense of difficulty there.
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*Homo* Sacer. I only call friends Homi Sacer! I was taught this book by one of Agamben's English translators. He read from the Italian version in the lecture to point to places of hope in a book that mostly creates a sense of despair. & contrasted this with Means Without End.
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