Introduction the greeks had no single term to express what we mean by the word life. Adam polich deliverables coordinator the mill linkedin. Agamben s main argument is about the depoliticization of humans societies. It is based on the transcript shared by chronos magazine. From the state of control to a praxis of destituent power.
A pdf copy of the original german text is available at the monumenta. In contrast to attempts to affirm a constituent power independent of a relation to constituted power, which for agamben both reproduce the governmental structure of the exception and represent the apex of metaphysics, destituent power outlines a force that, in its very constitution, deactivates the governmental machine. Thumm an ontology of how, that is what giorgio agamben presents us in what is destituent. For a theory of destituent power source public lecture in athens, 16. The organizers are working to reschedule the conference for fall 2020. For a theory of destituent power critical legal thinking. Responding directly to recent occupations and insurrectionsfrom cairo and istanbul to london and new york city agamben builds upon his existing work in order to develop and clarify his understanding of the political and, in particular, the notion of destituent power potenza. While a constituent power destroys law only to recreate it in a new form, destituent power, in so far as it deposes once.
It is through the dispositif that the human being is transformed into both a subject, and an object, of power relations. In order to do so, the paper turns to discuss a peculiar form of nonviolent resistance grounded in what giorgio agamben calls destituent power. Giorgio agamben from the state of control to a praxis of destituent power 20 transcript of a public lecture by giorgio agamben delivered to a packed. The following essay by giorgio agamben is based on a lecture given in central france. Giorgio agamben, state of exception stato di eccezione. Destituent power and the ungoverned life sep 2015 may 2016. Our research aims to comprehend, synthesize, and ideally expand synthetically upon agamben s effort to depose the paradigm of. Agambens notion of destituent power, which he counterpoises to constituent or revolutionary power. Second, i will link these parallel concepts to a notion of.
Translated by kevin attell article pdf available in international journal of constitutional law 43. Notes on for a theory of destituent power by giorgio. From the state of control to a praxis of destituent power roar magazine. The following essay by giorgio agamben is based on a lecture given in central france in the summer of 20. What follows is a rough summary of agamben s lecture for a theory of destituent power nov. In homo sacer, agamben aims to connect the problem of pure possibility, potentiality, and power with the problem of political and social ethics in a context where the latter has lost its previous. For agamben, it is in the sensible elaboration of the belonging together of life and form, being and action, beyond all relation, that the impasse of the present will be overcome. A reflection on the destiny of democracy today here in athens is in some way disturbing, because it obliges to think the end of democracy in the very place where it was born. They used two terms that, although traceable to a common etymological root, are semantically and morphologically distinct.