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Sovereign Excess, Legitimacy and Resistance
Engelsk Paperback
Sovereign Excess, Legitimacy and Resistance
Engelsk Paperback

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When talking about his film Salò, Pasolini claimed that nothing is more anarchic than power, because power does whatever it wants, and what power wants is totally arbitrary. And yet, upon examining the murderous capital of modern sovereignty, the fragility emerges of a power whose existence depends on its victims’ recognition. Like a prayer from God, the command implores to be loved, also by those whom it puts to death. Benefitting from this "political theurgy" as the book calls it (the idea that a power, like God, claiming to be full of glory, constantly needs to be glorified) is Barnardine, the Bohemian murderer in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, as he, called upon by power to the gallows, answers with a curse: ‘a pox o’ your throats’.



He does not want to die, nor, indeed, will he. And so, he becomes sovereign. On a level with and against the State.

Product detaljer
Sprog:
Engelsk
Sider:
158
ISBN-13:
9780367665128
Indbinding:
Paperback
Udgave:
ISBN-10:
0367665123
Udg. Dato:
30 sep 2020
Længde:
18mm
Bredde:
231mm
Højde:
157mm
Forlag:
Taylor & Francis Ltd
Oplagsdato:
30 sep 2020
Forfatter(e):
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