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Hannah Arendt, Biopolitics And The Problem Of Violence: From Animal Laborans To Homo Sacer, Andre De Macedo Duarte
Hannah Arendt, Biopolitics And The Problem Of Violence: From Animal Laborans To Homo Sacer, Andre De Macedo Duarte
Andre de Macedo Duarte
In his work Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, Giorgio Agamben affirms that Arendt and Foucault were the contemporary political theorists that best understood the modern dramatic political shifts that culminate in the Nazi and Stalinist extermination camps. This text explores this insight and proposes to establish an Arendtian diagnosis of the present under the paradigm of biopolitics, defined as the unifying character of different contemporary violent phenomena such as: preventive and humanitarian wars; fanatical suicidal terrorist attacks aiming at the complete annihilation of its opponents; the utilization of chemical and bacteriological mass destructive weapons by States against civilian …
Michael Winterbotton Encontra Giorgio Agamben: Biopolítica E Cinema, Andre De Macedo Duarte
Michael Winterbotton Encontra Giorgio Agamben: Biopolítica E Cinema, Andre De Macedo Duarte
Andre de Macedo Duarte
This article intends to theoretically think with Michael Winterbotton’s movies 'In this world' (2002), 'Code 46' (2003) and 'The road to Guantanamo' (2006). These movies are interpreted as ‘texts’ which interrogate main dilemmas of contemporary and near future politics, such as: illegal immigration, illegal detention and biopolitical control. In order to do so, Giorgio Agamben’s concepts such as ‘biopolitics’ and ‘state of exception’ constitute main theoretical references since they illuminate the chocking powerfulness of Winterbotton’s images. The common feature of both Winterbotton’s movies and Agamben's concept of biopolitics relates to the unstable frontier that politically and economically separates bare life …