Eugene asks about Georgio Agamben. Below is a short note on him. I find
his writings on the state les interesting and useful than his return to
the question of commodity fetishism, which is a refreshing revisiting of a
neglected concept. On the state, his approach seems more philological than
But a part of me is also wondering if this isn't always the case; if the
notion that political sovereignty functions through a permanent state of
exception/emergency is simply a constitutive part of the way that 'the body
politic' has been formulated since Plato (I was thinking of Plato's
[via Brett Neilson]
http://truthout.org/docs_04/011304H.shtml
No to Bio-Political Tattooing
By Giorgio Agamben
Le Monde
Saturday 10 January 2004
The newspapers leave no doubt: from now on whoever wants to go to
the United States with a visa will be put on file and will have to
leave
