![]() ![]() ![]() We have already seen how the state of siege had its origin in France during the Revolution. It is part of a wider range in governance in which the rule of law is routinely displaced by the state of exception, or emergency, and people are increasingly subject to extra-judicial state violence.”-Malcolm Bull, London Review of BooksĪ Brief History of the State of Exception by Giorgio Agamben An excerpt from State of Exception We have moved from Athens to Auschwitz: the West's political model is now the concentration camp rather than the city state we are no longer citizens but detainees, distinguishable from the inmates of Guantanamo not by any difference in legal status, but only by the fact that we have not yet had the misfortune to be incarcerated-or unexpectedly executed by a missile from an unmanned aircraft.…But although his recent examples come from the war on terror, the political development they represent is not, according to Agamben, peculiar to the United States under the Bush presidency. ![]() “For Agamben, fingerprinting is not just a matter of civil liberties: it is symptomatic of an alarming shift in political geography. ![]()
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