Agamben e il campo come paradigma biopolitico
Abstract
Giorgio Agamben, in many places of his work, identifies the “camp” as a biopolitical paradigm. Through a brief investigation on the concept of paradigm, this article intends to highlight the key-role of the camp in Agamben’s reflection, underlying how it represents the climax of biopolitical power attempts to dominate life. In conclusion it is necessary to illustrate Agamben strategies, both practical and theoretical, political and philosophical to prevent the total, global and final imposition of the camp, as a place ruled by a permanent state of exception and where only “bare life” can live. Through these strategies Agamben aims to overturn the relation between power and life.
Abstract
Giorgio Agamben, in many places of his work, identifies the “camp” as a biopolitical paradigm. Through a brief investigation on the concept of paradigm, this article intends to highlight the key-role of the camp in Agamben’s reflection, underlying how it represents the climax of biopolitical power attempts to dominate life. In conclusion it is necessary to illustrate Agamben strategies, both practical and theoretical, political and philosophical to prevent the total, global and final imposition of the camp, as a place ruled by a permanent state of exception and where only “bare life” can live. Through these strategies Agamben aims to overturn the relation between power and life.
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
-
The Human Condition of Exception: Collected Essays
- Words Behind Bars: Philosophy, Literature and the Experience of Detention 1
- The Scream as a Universal Language of Pain 15
- I confini dell’umano: il laboratorio di Auschwitz 21
- Agamben e il campo come paradigma biopolitico 35
- Testimoniare l’intestimoniabile: l’aporia di Auschwitz 47
- “To Restitute a New Privilege to the Inner Life”: Emmanuel Levinas and the Experience of Captivity 59
- Pain is Without Why: The (Non)Sense of Suffering After the Shoah 71
- Prisoners’ Rebellion Against the Silence of God: André Neher and Elie Wiesel 85
- “Suonare per vivere”: la musica utopica nei campi 95
- The Soundtrack of Extermination 111
- Pensare il campo di sterminio a partire da Per la critica della violenza di Benjamin 127
- “‘Is it Life?’ [. . .] ‘I Would Rather Be Without it’”: Flann O’Brien and the Fictive State of Exception 139
- Lost at Sea: Internment on the Argenta Prison Ship 1922–1925 151
- Transforming Narratives: Unveiling the Detained Voice 161
- Contributors and Editors 169
-
Aldo Quarisa’s Diary: An Italian-English Edition
- Dedication 175
- Acknowledgements 177
- Prefazione 179
- Preface 181
- Signals of Survival: Radio Technology and Communication in WWII Camps 185
- Hungry as a Prisoner 195
- Diario 203
- Diary 263
- Index 323
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter I
- Contents V
-
The Human Condition of Exception: Collected Essays
- Words Behind Bars: Philosophy, Literature and the Experience of Detention 1
- The Scream as a Universal Language of Pain 15
- I confini dell’umano: il laboratorio di Auschwitz 21
- Agamben e il campo come paradigma biopolitico 35
- Testimoniare l’intestimoniabile: l’aporia di Auschwitz 47
- “To Restitute a New Privilege to the Inner Life”: Emmanuel Levinas and the Experience of Captivity 59
- Pain is Without Why: The (Non)Sense of Suffering After the Shoah 71
- Prisoners’ Rebellion Against the Silence of God: André Neher and Elie Wiesel 85
- “Suonare per vivere”: la musica utopica nei campi 95
- The Soundtrack of Extermination 111
- Pensare il campo di sterminio a partire da Per la critica della violenza di Benjamin 127
- “‘Is it Life?’ [. . .] ‘I Would Rather Be Without it’”: Flann O’Brien and the Fictive State of Exception 139
- Lost at Sea: Internment on the Argenta Prison Ship 1922–1925 151
- Transforming Narratives: Unveiling the Detained Voice 161
- Contributors and Editors 169
-
Aldo Quarisa’s Diary: An Italian-English Edition
- Dedication 175
- Acknowledgements 177
- Prefazione 179
- Preface 181
- Signals of Survival: Radio Technology and Communication in WWII Camps 185
- Hungry as a Prisoner 195
- Diario 203
- Diary 263
- Index 323
