[D66] Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life

Thu Nov 1 12:32:57 CET 2012

List of numbers 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_numbers>---Integers 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Integer>

<< <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/179_%28number%29>180 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/180_%28number%29>181 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/181_%28number%29>*182*183 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/183_%28number%29>184 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/184_%28number%29>185 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/185_%28number%29>186 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/186_%28number%29>187 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/187_%28number%29>188 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/188_%28number%29>189 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/189_%28number%29>>> 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/190_%28number%29>

Cardinal <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardinal_number> 	One hundred [and]
eighty-two
Ordinal <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_number> 	182nd
Divisors <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divisor> 	1 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_%28number%29>,2 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_%28number%29>,7 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/7_%28number%29>,13 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/13_%28number%29>,14 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14_%28number%29>,26 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/26_%28number%29>,91 
<http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/91_%28number%29>, 182
Factorization <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Factorization> 	2 \cdot 7 
\cdot 13
Roman numeral <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_numeral> 	CLXXXII
Hebrew <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_numerals> 	???(Kuf Peh Bet)
Ge'ez numeral <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ge%27ez_numerals> 	[100][80][2]
Chinese numeral <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_numeral> 	????
Binary <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Binary_numeral_system> 	10110110
Ternary <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ternary_numeral_system> 	20202
Balanced ternary <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Balanced_ternary> 
1_1_1_1_1_1_
Negaternary <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Negaternary> 	20202
Octal <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octal> 	*266*
Nonary <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nonary> 	222
Undecimal <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Undecimal> 	156
Duodecimal <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Duodecimal> 	132
Hexadecimal <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexadecimal> 	*B6*
Fibonacci <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fibonacci_coding> 	001000010011

On 01-11-12 12:22, Antid Oto wrote:
> Ontological hermeneutics van het 66... In vet.
>
> 182 is a member of the Mian-Chowla sequence 
> <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mian-Chowla_sequence>: 1, 2, 4, 8, 13, 21, 31, 45, 66, 81, 97, 123, 148, 
> 182
>
>
> On 30-10-12 19:53, Antid Oto wrote:
>>
>> ¨The concentration camp is the hidden paradigm for the exercise of 
>> power in western politics, including contemporary liberal democracies"
>> (Agamben)
>>
>> http://muse.jhu.edu/login?auth=0&type=summary&url=/journals/modernism-modernity/v006/6.3lewis.html 
>>
>> Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (review)
>> Stephen E. Lewis
>> From: Modernism/modernity
>> Volume 6, Number 3, September 1999
>> pp. 163-166 | 10.1353/mod.1999.0030
>> In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:
>> Modernism/Modernity 6.3 (1999) 163-166
>> Book Review
>>
>> Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life
>>
>> Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Giorgio Agamben. Trans. 
>> Daniel Heller-Roazen. Stanford, Calif.: Stanford University Press, 
>> 1998. Pp. xii + 199. $45.00 (cloth); $16.95 (paper).
>>
>> The central claim in Giorgio Agamben's latest book to be translated 
>> into English (the Italian original was published in 1995) is 
>> extremely provocative: the concentration camp is the hidden paradigm 
>> for the exercise of power in western politics, including contemporary 
>> liberal democracies. He pursues his argument not through 
>> historiographical inquiry but, rather, through what he calls an 
>> "historico-philosophical" analysis of nothing less than the 
>> fundamental structure of sovereign power as exercised in the West 
>> from Aristotle to the *present (10)*. Through primary reference to 
>> Carl Schmitt and Walter Benjamin, the book defines sovereignty as a 
>> relation of exclusionary inclusion between the sovereign power and 
>> what Agamben terms "bare life." Bare life ("la nuda vita") is 
>> something like *"life in general" (66)* or *"pure being" (182)*, as 
>> opposed to the *"way of life proper to men" (66)*. Within the context 
>> of the sovereign relation, bare life is the part of the political 
>> subject's existence excluded from the juridical order instituted by 
>> the sovereign power. Nevertheless, this exclusion of bare life from 
>> the juridical order in fact constitutes a hidden inclusion with 
>> relation to sovereign power because the sovereign power must, in 
>> order to be able to manifest its absolute authority at any given 
>> moment, reserve the right to suspend the juridical order it 
>> instituted. Thus the thing upon which sovereign power exercises its 
>> absolute, extrajuridical power within the state of exception is the 
>> very thing that was excluded at the moment of juridical institution: 
>> bare life. Paradoxically, then, bare life is *"the element that, in 
>> the exception, finds itself in the most intimate relation with 
>> sovereignty" (67). *
>>
>> If all of this sounds abstract, that's because it is. Indeed, for a 
>> book intended as a response "to the bloody mystification of a new 
>> planetary order," it is in many ways too abstract, particularly in 
>> its first third (12). Only when Agamben arrives at the second of his 
>> three sections, the one devoted to the "protagonist" of the book, 
>> homo sacer (sacred man, the incarnation, so to speak, of bare life), 
>> does the sovereign relation Agamben is describing become clear in 
>> concrete terms (8).
>>
>> This second section of the book is the most "historical" insofar as 
>> it builds out of various well-chosen, logically and structurally 
>> homologous examples of power relations drawn from archaic Rome to the 
>> present a narrative account of the developing fate of the life of 
>> homo sacer in relation to sovereign power. This narrative begins with 
>> homo sacer, a man so designated in archaic Roman law as he who, in 
>> punishment for a crime, cannot be sacrificed according to the methods 
>> proscribed by divine law and yet may be killed without the killing 
>> being considered murder according to the laws of the city. The life 
>> of homo sacer thus, argues Agamben, concretely instantiates bare 
>> life's relation of excluded inclusion with regard to sovereign power.
>>
>> From this fascinating point of departure, Agamben proceeds to 
>> construct a chronological narrative of key moments of transformation 
>> in homo sacer's relation to the sovereign, evoking along the way such 
>> intriguing figures as the King and his two bodies in the English and 
>> French royal contexts, the "wolf-man" of early medieval Anglo-Saxon 
>> and Germanic law, the corpus singled out in the writ of habeas 
>> corpus, and the citizen of the "Déclaration des droits de l'homme et 
>> du citoyen." Then, in the book's third part, Agamben finishes his 
>> protagonist's story with a consideration of the Nazi concentration 
>> camp internee and such contemporary incarnations of homo sacer as the 
>> comatose patient on life...
>>
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