The Circulation of Camps in the Peripheries and the Desire for Undesirables
Ever since Giorgio Agamben wrote that ‘the camp may be regarded as the hidden matrix and nomos of the political space in which we are still living’ (1998, 166), a heated debate over how to read these irritating lines took place. It has been argued repeatedly, especially among German-speaking scholar...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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professionaldreamers
2016-09-01
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| Series: | lo Squaderno |
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| Online Access: | http://www.losquaderno.professionaldreamers.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/losquaderno41.pdf#page=39 |
| Summary: | Ever since Giorgio Agamben wrote that ‘the camp may be regarded as the hidden matrix and nomos of the political space in which we are still living’ (1998, 166), a heated debate over how to read these irritating lines took place. It has been argued repeatedly, especially among German-speaking scholars, that it amounts to an irresponsible nonsense to suggest, as Agamben is apparently doing with his essay Homo Sacer, that there were some sort of arcane continuities between the past concentration and extermination camps on the one hand and the present detention and deportation centers on the other. |
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| ISSN: | 1973-9141 |