To be is to be ruled
"To be is to be ruled: Identity and sovereignty as
mutually constitutive images"
Dr Grant Duncan
Paper presented to the School of Social and Cultural Studies
Massey University Albany
New Zealand
31 March 2010
Abstract
This paper dwells on the following propositions: Being someone – being a recognised person or subject – is an effect of being ruled. But also, the constituting of the Sovereign is an effect of imagining a ‘people’ – a collectivity of non-identical identities, or subjects – to be ruled over, and, as necessary, to be ‘ruled out’. Agamben’s theory of the state of exception will support this discussion, along with several exceptional examples.
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mutually constitutive images"
Dr Grant Duncan
Paper presented to the School of Social and Cultural Studies
Massey University Albany
New Zealand
31 March 2010
Abstract
This paper dwells on the following propositions: Being someone – being a recognised person or subject – is an effect of being ruled. But also, the constituting of the Sovereign is an effect of imagining a ‘people’ – a collectivity of non-identical identities, or subjects – to be ruled over, and, as necessary, to be ‘ruled out’. Agamben’s theory of the state of exception will support this discussion, along with several exceptional examples.
For a pdf copy of the full paper, either email me or leave your email address in the comments box. (Comments are moderated, so I won't leave your details on this blog).
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