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2. From Biopolitics to Ecopolitics: A Philosophical Framework for Geopolitics
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Imanaka, Jessica Ludescher, Tripathi, Sachchidanand, editor, Bhadouria, Rahul, editor, Singh, Rishikesh, editor, Srivastava, Pratap, editor, and Devi, Rajkumari Sanayaima, editor
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- 2023
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3. 'A Healthy Person is a Happy Person'. Biopolitical Reflections on the Promotion of Favignana as a COVID-free Island
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Ciarleglio, Caterina, Minca, Claudio, Roelofsen, Maartje, editor, and Minca, Claudio, editor
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- 2023
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4. Subjetividade, Imunização e Personalidade: questionamentos para o direito penal.
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de Almeida, Leonardo Monteiro Crespo
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CRIMINAL law ,SUBJECTIVITY ,VIOLENCE - Abstract
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- 2023
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5. Institución y Mundo de la vida. Un análisis desde Esposito y Merleau-Ponty.
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VILLACAÑAS BERLANGA, JOSÉ LUIS
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- 2023
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6. Desprecarizar la vida: biopolítica afirmativa y disenso como tareas de una filosofía por venir.
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CASTILLO VILLAPUDUA, KARLA, BARRIA-ASENJO, NICOL A., SALAS, GONZALO, and AYALA COLQUI, JESÚS
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POWER (Social sciences) ,POSSIBILITY ,DISCOURSE ,HYPOTHESIS - Abstract
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- 2023
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7. O comum, a comunidade (e seus opostos).
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Filipe Carvalho, Daniel
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PAPER products ,SOCIABILITY ,PRACTICAL politics - Abstract
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- 2023
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8. A Portrait of the Artist as a Woman on the Threshold: Patterns of Liminality and Communitas in Giovanna Capone’s In My Neighborhood
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Cristina Di Maio
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Liminality ,Communitas ,Italian American ,Turner ,Esposito ,Language and Literature ,Literature (General) ,PN1-6790 - Abstract
This contribution carries out a spatial analysis of the short stories and poems collected in Giovanna Capone’s In My Neighborhood (2014), with a twofold aim: exploring the significance of physical and metaphorical liminalities in the development of Capone’s poetics and, on a more theoretical level, outlining an alternative paradigm, based on the concepts of liminality and communitas, to read Capone’s poetry, as well as other contemporary Italian-American literary texts. I identify four sites of liminality in Capone’s work and delve into their relationship with the narrative voice and the role they play in its evolution. This essay reflects on Giovanna Capone’s Bildung and her identity as a queer Italian-American author by re-reading the four spaces described in In My Neighborhood through the lens of Victor Turner’s theory of liminality and Roberto Esposito’s notion of communitas. Esposito’s development of the concept allows for an alternative interpretation of the community of Italian American queer subjectivities created by Capone in the Southwest. Finally, the connection of such community with Gloria Anzaldúa’s formulation of Borderland and ‘mestiza consciousness’ is highlighted as a theoretical counternarrative to the identification of the ethnic queer self as a member of a community defined by borders.
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- 2023
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9. BIOPOLITICA, ISTITUZIONI E SOVRANITÀ IN ROBERTO ESPOSITO.
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TEDESCO, FRANCESCOMARIA
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COMMUNITIES ,MORPHOGENESIS ,IMMUNIZATION ,SOVEREIGNTY ,IMMUNITY - Abstract
The immunity/community plexus has found an extraordinary and tragic bench test in the recent years of the pandemic. The idea that the community can only survive if it activates a problematic dispositive of immunisation touches, in these years more than ever, the question of democracy. The latter struggles between identity as immediacy and representation as transcendence. Roberto Esposito has tried to envisage a mediation between these two principles by means of the idea of 'institution', which serves to counter the furious identification of all in one. But does this idea of immanence and horizontality not risk evoking other forms of spontaneous morphogenesis of political-legal orders? Doesn't the critique of sovereignty end up resolving itself in the vitalistic exaltation of the unbridledness of those powers that underlie it? Does the institution succeed in standing between these two perspectives (Weberian formalism and Foucauldian biopolitics)? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
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10. El miedo a la muerte: Una política que oscila entre la comunidad y la inmunidad.
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Serratore, Constanza
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HERD immunity ,POLITICAL science ,FEAR of death ,IMMUNITY ,SWORDS ,SOVEREIGNTY - Abstract
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- 2023
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11. Immunity and Community in Esposito, Derrida and Agamben.
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Rosàs Tosas, Mar
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HERD immunity ,VIOLENCE in the community ,AUTOIMMUNITY ,COMMUNITIES ,SUSPICION ,TELEVISION in security systems - Abstract
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- 2023
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12. A Portrait of the Artist as a Woman on the Threshold: Patterns of Liminality and Communitas in Giovanna Capone's In My Neighborhood.
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di Maio, Cristina
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LIMINALITY - Abstract
This contribution carries out a spatial analysis of the short stories and poems collected in Giovanna Capone's In My Neighborhood (2014), with a twofold aim: exploring the significance of physical and metaphorical liminalities in the development of Capone's poetics and, on a more theoretical level, outlining an alternative paradigm, based on the concepts of liminality and communitas, to read Capone's poetry, as well as other contemporary Italian-American literary texts. I identify four sites of liminality in Capone's work and delve into their relationship with the narrative voice and the role they play in its evolution. This essay reflects on Giovanna Capone's Bildung and her identity as a queer Italian-American author by rereading the four spaces described in In My Neighborhood through the lens of Victor Turner's theory of liminality and Roberto Esposito's notion of communitas. Esposito's development of the concept allows for an alternative interpretation of the community of Italian American queer subjectivities created by Capone in the Southwest. Finally, the connection of such community with Gloria Anzaldúa's formulation of Borderland and 'mestiza consciousness' is highlighted as a theoretical counternarrative to the identification of the ethnic queer self as a member of a community defined by borders. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2023
13. Islamism, Political Islam, and the Need for Critique
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Cliteur Paul
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islamism ,religious terrorism ,theoterrorism ,freedom of speech ,religious criticism ,islamophobia ,elisabeth sabaditsch-wolff ,e.s. v. austria (echr) ,koopmans ,esposito ,Philosophy. Psychology. Religion - Abstract
This article is about Islamism (or political Islam) as a challenge for contemporary liberal democracies. Islamism is portrayed as an ideology that favors one specific religion as supreme and that is a threat to freedom of speech. The author makes a plea for distinguishing a. the religion of Islam, b. Muslims as a group, and c. the political ideology of Islamism. Regarding the dangers of Islamism, some sociological research about the convictions of Muslims is discussed (Koopmans, Esposito) and the most recent case from the European Court of Human Rights in Strasbourg—E.S. v. Austria (2018: 38450/12)—is analysed, which renders all criticism of Islam and Islamism difficult, if not impossible.
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- 2021
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14. A New Path of Thinking for Europe? Care for Life, Personhood, and the Place of Thought in Roberto Esposito.
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D'Angelo, Diego
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PHILOSOPHERS , *PERSONALITY (Theory of knowledge) , *CARE ethics (Philosophy) , *POLITICAL theology - Abstract
The philosophy of Roberto Esposito has recently been taking a new path. After a first phase that started an original discussion about the concepts of the "impolitical," he dedicated, in a second phase, more and more attention to questions linked to the concepts of "person" and "personhood" in a critical vein. In the present contribution, I claim that his attempt to avoid such traditional categories to define the human being as a political subject is deeply related to the concept of care, most notably to what I propose to term care of and for life itself. In his last work, which inaugurates a third and new phase, Da fuori. Una filosofia per l'Europa, his reflections focus on the question of how Europe thinks, and sketch out the role of contemporary so-called "Italian Theory" in the framework of today's European thinking. The question of care will therefore be related, in the last part of the present paper, to the problem of understanding the role of though in contemporary Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2022
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15. An American story of hope : A narrative analysis on the role of hope within the Biden administration's biographical narrative after January 6th
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Norbäck, Sara and Norbäck, Sara
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This thesis explores the role of hope within the Biden administration’s biographical narrative during the year after the Capitol attack on January 6th. The thesis provides for both an exploration of the case and how hope within national identity representations can be analyzed, as well as the value of hope after a disruptive event with consequences for the nation’s self-understanding. Previous research has focused mainly on fear of the outside or internal anxiety as drivers of state identity representations while implicitly assuming the occurrence of universality or a stable identity within the state. Instead, the theorizing on hope proposed by the thesis suggests that the American subject is unfinished and incomplete within its identity representations and requires hope to move forward, while also immunizing notions of fear and anxiety. While a complete identity can never be reached, American identity representations are sustained by manifesting hope for the future. Even though the American collective subject may never reach its desired unity, the hope that it someday might allow for the continuation of identity representations of the striving subject.
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- 2024
16. Biopolitics, race and resistance in the novels of Salman Rushdie
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Twigg, George William, Stadtler, Florian, Maclean, Gerald, and Ryan, Derek
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823 ,Rushdie ,Foucault ,Race ,Racism ,Biopolitics ,Resistance ,Hardt and Negri ,Esposito ,Agamben ,Homo Sacer ,Space ,Deleuze and Guattari ,Thanatopolitics ,Colonialism ,Sovereignty ,Discourse - Abstract
The twenty-first century has seen a resurgence of academic interest in biopolitics: the often oppressive political power over human biology, human bodies and their actions that emerges when political technologies concern themselves with and act upon a population as a species rather than as a group of individuals. The publication of new works by theorists including Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben, Roberto Esposito, Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri has furthered academic understanding of biopolitical attempts to ensure an orderly, productive society. Biopolitics bases these attempts upon optimising the majority population’s health and well-being while constructing simultaneously a subrace of unruly, unproductive bodies against which the majority requires securitising. However, despite the still-proliferating and increasingly diverse recent theoretical work on the subject, little material has appeared examining how literature represents biopolitics or how theories of biopolitics may inform literary criticism. This thesis argues for Salman Rushdie’s novels as an exemplary site of fictional engagement with biopower in their portrayal of the increasingly intense and pervasive biopolitical technologies used in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Rushdie has been considered frequently as a novelist who explores political discourses of race and culture. However, analysis of the ways in which he depicts these discourses animating recent biopolitical practices has proven scarcer in Rushdie Studies. This thesis asserts that Rushdie’s novels affirm consistently the desirability of non-racialising polities, but almost always suggest little possibility of constructing such communities. In the process, it will reveal that he represents more numerous and varied forms of racialisation than has been supposed previously. This study considers how Rushdie describes biopolitical racialisation by state and superrace alike, the massacres of subraces that often ensue, how biopower operates and is resisted in space, and the discursive and practical forms this resistance takes. Contrasting Rushdie’s early fiction with his less-studied more recent works, this analysis deploys, critiques and augments canonical theories of biopower in order to chart his generally growing disinclination to depict this resistance’s potential success. This study thus works towards a new biopolitical literary criticism which argues that although the theories of Foucault and others illuminate the ways in which literature represents power and resistance in contemporary politics, narrative fiction indicates simultaneously the limitations of these theories and the practices of resistance they advocate.
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- 2016
17. Kritik der Biopolitik
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Sebastian Krach
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Biopolitik ,Widerstand ,Foucault ,Agamben ,Esposito ,Philosophy (General) ,B1-5802 - Abstract
Zusammenfassung: Aktuelle Debatten zu gesellschaftspolitischen Folgen der Corona-Pandemie zeigen, dass Intellektuelle wie Giorgio Agamben und Roberto Esposito den Begriff „Biopolitik“ ins Treffen führen, um Regierungsmaßnahmen zur Eindämmung des Virus zu analysieren. Seit Michel Foucaults Überlegungen zur Funktionsweise und Genealogie der Biopolitik birgt der Begriff jedoch eine gewisse Problematik: Aufgrund strukturell bedingter Mechanismen der Inklusion und Exklusion menschlichen Lebens gelingt es den biopolitischen Modellen nach Agamben und Esposito nicht – so die These –, ein zentrales Element des Politischen zu beschreiben. Unberücksichtigt bleibt die Möglichkeit des Widerstands und der Kritik an Regierungsmaßnahmen; eine Möglichkeit, die gerade die Heterogenität politischer Ordnungsstrukturen anzeigt. Im Zuge der Analytik moderner Machttechniken verschiebt Foucault anders als Agamben und Esposito den Fokus von der Biopolitik hin zu einem umfassenderen Paradigma des „Regierens“, der Gouvernementalität. Infolgedessen lässt sich die Biopolitik als Regierungsweise thematisieren, mit der immer schon Formen widerständigen Handelns einhergehen. Um dieser Perspektive Rechnung zu tragen, argumentiert mein Beitrag mit Foucault gegen die primär strukturale Auffassung (bio)politischer Ordnungen nach Agamben und Esposito.
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- 2022
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18. BIOPOWER OF BLOOD: FROM IMMUNITY TO SELF-REFERENTIALITY AND SELF-ACTUALIZATION.
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Kordela, A. Kiarina
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SELF-actualization (Psychology) ,IMMUNITY ,INCEST ,MODERNITY ,GENEALOGY - Abstract
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- 2022
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19. Biopolítica e suas derivações no pensamento filosófico-político de Roberto Esposito
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Fernando Gigante Ferraz
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Biopolítica ,Pensamento italiano ,Esposito ,Foucault ,Imanência ,Philosophy (General) ,B1-5802 ,Ethics ,BJ1-1725 - Abstract
Em um primeiro momento o texto faz uma retomada sintética das categorias de poder e biopolítica no pensamento de Foucault. Em seguida o texto passa a tematizar quais os desdobramentos que o tema da biopolí-tica sofrerá no pensamento filosófico-políti-co italiano na atualidade, principalmente no pensamento de Roberto Esposito.
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- 2021
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20. Porous Bodies: Environmental Biopower and the Politics of Life in Ancient Rome.
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Meloni, Maurizio
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SOCIAL theory , *BIOPOLITICS (Philosophy) , *URBAN growth , *URBANIZATION - Abstract
The case for an unprecedented penetration of life mechanisms into the politics of Western modernity has been a cornerstone of 20th-century social theory. Working with and beyond Foucault, this article challenges established views about the history of biopower by focusing on ancient medical writings and practices of corporeal permeability. Through an analysis of three Roman institutions: a) bathing; b) urban architecture; and c) the military, it shows that technologies aimed at fostering and regulating life did exist in classical antiquity at the population scale. The article highlights zones of indistinction between natural and political processes, zoē and bíos, that are not captured by a view of destructive incorporation of or over life by sovereign power. In conclusion, the article discusses the theoretical potential of this historical evidence for contemporary debates on 'affirmative biopolitics' and 'environmental biopower'. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2021
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21. Implicações críticas da imunização biopolítica da vida humana em tempos de pandemia viral: reflexões a partir de Roberto Esposito
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William Costa
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Esposito ,Imunização biopolítica ,Paradigma imunitário ,Implicações críticas ,Vida. ,Philosophy (General) ,B1-5802 - Abstract
O presente artigo tem como objetivo analisar as implicações críticas da imunização biopolítica da vida humana a partir das reflexões de Roberto Esposito, problematizando a seguinte questão: em tempos de pandemia viral e, consequentemente, de Estados emergenciais, de que maneira o paradigma imunitário atua sobre a vida humana? A hipótese que gostaríamos de desenvolver parte do relevo de que, em crises agudas, o paradigma imunitário é tensionado ao seu limite, convergindo para a produção de Estados de emergência segundo os quais são responsáveis por introduzir políticas nefastas de produção tanto da vida quanto da morte. Para validar nossa hipótese e desenvolver o objetivo e a problemática da pesquisa, o presente texto se organiza em dois momentos: (1) primeiramente, nosso intuito consiste em apresentar brevemente a reflexão de Esposito acerca do paradigma imunitário; (2) em seguida, temos como fito analisar criticamente o estado de pandemia viral à luz do paradigma imunitário, buscando encontrar vestígios de como tal ferramenta conceitual nos permite desenvolver uma interpretação para o tempo presente.
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- 2021
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22. Apartar la mirada del origen: la crítica a la fenomenología política de Hannah Arendt desde el pensamiento impolítico de Roberto Esposito
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Agustín Palomar Torralbo
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esposito ,impolítica ,origen ,deconstrucción ,fenómeno ,Philosophy (General) ,B1-5802 - Abstract
Este artículo estudia el lugar que la fenomenología tiene en el pensamiento de lo impolítico de Esposito. Para ello, en primer lugar, expone la tarea del deconstruccionismo en el marco general del pensamiento de Esposito acerca de la comunidad. En segundo lugar, expone la relevancia y el sentido que las categorías de sujeto y sustancia tienen para la tradición metafísica de la filosofía política. Y, a partir de aquí, el artículo se adentra en la lectura que Esposito hace de la fenomenología de Arendt en torno al problema del origen. El objetivo de este artículo es mostrar cómo lo impolítico se constituye como un pensamiento de la comunidad que lleva en sí la negación de lo político como el esfuerzo de un sujeto metafísico para hacer visible el origen como fenómeno.
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- 2018
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23. Improper communities in the work of Roberto Esposito and Jacques Rancière.
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Inston, Kevin
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COMMUNITIES ,DEFINITIONS ,PRIVATIZATION ,OPENNESS to experience ,CULTURE ,PERSONAL property ,GESTURE - Abstract
Recent theories of community (Nancy, Agamben, Esposito) aim to think the term beyond its definition as the ownership of shared identity, language, culture or territory. For Esposito, to reduce community to a property whose possession distinguishes members from non-members undermines the commonality the term implies. The common opposes what is proper or one's own; it belongs to everyone and anyone. Rather than securing identity and belonging, community, defined by its impropriety, disrupts them so that we are in common. While his work successfully illustrates the incompatibility of the common and the proper, it leaves unanswered the question of how communities come to experience their impropriety. Through a comparison with Rancière's improper community, we can identify and gesture beyond this limit. Its members intervene in proper communities by exercising the right to decide on common matters despite officially having no right to do so. Their actions, by demonstrating the openness of the common to anyone and everyone, turn its privatisation into a shared wrong that connects community with non-community. By supplementing Esposito's work with Rancière's, we see how communities relate to what they have deemed improper in a way that both challenges and revitalises their sense of commonality. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2020
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24. Philosophy And Anarchism: Alternative Or Dilemma?
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Williams, Tyler M., editor
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- 2022
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25. El fundamento nihilista de la política: democracia y comunidad
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Brais González Arribas
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Posfundacionalismo ,Nihilismo ,Vattimo ,Rancière ,Esposito ,Political science ,Political theory ,JC11-607 - Abstract
El presente artículo realiza una crítica a la política sustancialista, aquella definida por la existencia de un fundamento rígido que la antecede y la determina, generalmente una identidad o una esencia que se ha de mantener o desenvolver, ya que no solo sienta las bases de una política conservadora y reaccionaria, sino que además bloquea la aparición de la diferencia, de los “otros” en principio ajenos a la comunidad. En contraste, presentamos las ideas clave que permiten elaborar una política postfundacionalista o nihilista, y lo hacemos apoyándonos en alguna de las ideas más importantes de sus autores más representativos, Vattimo, Ranciére y Esposito, los cuales abren la puerta a una concepción de la política, la democracia y la comunidad, más respetuosa con la alteridad
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- 2017
26. L’inaspettato istituzionalismo foucaultiano. Un’ipotesi di studio a partire dall’abbandono del paradigma ontologico costituente
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Crosato, Carlo and Crosato, Carlo
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This essay draws from Roberto Esposito’s insight about an unexpected institutionalism in Foucault’s 1979 lectures. I will reconstruct the background of Foucault’s genealogical and polemological analyses, showing how these analyses conduct him to abandon the antagonism in favor of an agonistic conflict, closer to the form of conflict of the institutional ontology.
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- 2023
27. Repensando la biopolítica en el Antropoceno. Foucault, Esposito y la fisiología política de los metabolismos sociales
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Coronel Tarancón, Alberto and Coronel Tarancón, Alberto
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Michel Foucault y Roberto Esposito han sido dos de los pensadores biopolíticos más influyentes del siglo XX, pero sus respectivas aproximaciones a la relación entre vida y política no abordan el principal problema del Antropoceno: la relación entre la vida y la energía. Por ello, el artículo analiza los límites biofísicos de la biopolítica en los trabajos de Foucault y de Roberto Esposito. Para superar estos límites, se propone analizar el ensamblaje fisiológico de los dispositivos de poder en el interior de los flujos energéticos de los metabolismos sociales. El artículo concluye que este enfoque biofísico y biopolítico de las sociedades humanas nos permite superar los límites biofísicos tanto de la biopolítica foucaultiana como del paradigma inmunológico de Esposito, Michel Foucault and Roberto Esposito have been two of the most influential biopolitical thinkers of the twentieth century, but their respective approaches to the relationship between life and politics do not address the main problem of the Anthropocene: the relationship between life and energy. Thus, this article analyzes the biophysical limits of biopolitics in the works of Foucault and Roberto Esposito and, to overcome these limits, it proposes to analyze the physiological assembly of the devices of power within the energetic flows of social metabolisms. The article concludes that the physio-political approach to human societies allows us to overcome the biophysical limits of both Foucauldian biopolitics and Esposito's immunological paradigm.
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- 2023
28. Geografia e filosofia. Riflessioni su Pensiero vivente di Roberto Esposito a partire da Spinoza, Cavell e Foucault
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Raffaele Ariano
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Spinoza ,Esposito ,Foucault ,italian theory ,Cavell ,Aesthetics ,BH1-301 ,Ethics ,BJ1-1725 - Abstract
The article focuses on the so-called ‘Italian theory’, with special reference to its assessment in Roberto Esposito’s 2010 book Living Thought. The article puts forth three main arguments. First, there is an analogy between the ‘geo-philosophical’ strategy chosen by Esposito to address Italian thought and the strategy pursued by Stanley Cavell when he reflects on Emerson and the specificity of American philosophy. Second, the main traits attributed by Esposito to Italian thought show significant parallels with key concepts in Michel Foucault’s philosophy. Third, interpretations of Spinoza by authors such as Gilles Deleuze and Toni Negri have been instrumental for the flourishing of the philosophical debate that prepared Esposito’s elaboration of a canon of Italian thinkers. The article thus hints that Italian theory could be an interesting case study for the reflection on the relations between geography and philosophy.
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- 2019
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29. Esposito's affirmative biopolitics in multispecies homes.
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Lynch, Heather and Bird, Greg
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BIOPOLITICS (Sociobiology) , *ANNIHILATIONISM (Christianity) , *DWELLINGS , *BEDBUGS , *ETHNOGRAPHIC analysis - Abstract
Drawing on Roberto Esposito's conceptualization of 'affirmative biopolitics', this article examines the relationship between bedbugs and humans in the Glasgow neighbourhood of Govanhill. Through an analysis of ethnographic field notes and interviews with people who live in the area, this article traces their experiences from first encounters. The trajectory of this experience shows a shift from a desire to immunize their homes through total annihilation of the creatures to the more pragmatic position of learning how to live with them through an orientation toward 'shared vulnerability'. This case study raises interesting questions for biopolitical theory: how can we conceive of affirmative biopolitics when the limitations of species being are evident, and is it possible to conceive of a multi or even interspecies munus or obligation? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2019
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30. Soberanía política, inmunidad y excepción. Claves hermenéuticas sobre la gubernamentalidad neoliberal
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Iván Torres-Apablaza
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agamben ,esposito ,gubernamentalidad ,soberanía ,Philosophy. Psychology. Religion ,Philosophy (General) ,B1-5802 - Abstract
Para analizar la gubernamentalidad neoliberal, se asume como problema la caracterización de las formas contemporáneas de ejercicio del poder bajo una nueva modalidad de soberanía política localizada en el mercado. Se proponen las nociones de inmunidad y excepción como claves hermenéuticas, y se establece un diálogo entre las derivas foucaultianas de los trabajos de R. Esposito y G. Agamben. Se muestra cómo la relación entre poder y vida asume una forma estratificada y diferenciada, siguiendo una racionalidad de gobierno que encuentra en el cálculo del riesgo el operador funcional de sus intervenciones estratégicas sobre la población.
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31. Conflicto y vida: La recuperación del Centauro en el pensamiento de Roberto Esposito
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Pamela Soto García
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maquiavelo ,esposito ,conflicto ,política y vida ,History of scholarship and learning. The humanities ,AZ20-999 ,Social sciences (General) ,H1-99 - Abstract
La recuperación de la figura mítica del Centauro presente en El príncipe de Nicolás Maquiavelo por parte de un grupo de pensadores pertenecientes a la Italian Theory, pretende tensionar el campo de lo político a través del posicionamiento del conflicto como condición propia de este campo. Esta escena filosófica,en la que participa Roberto Esposito,cuestiona las categorías políticas de la modernidadmediante la articulación de un horizonte antropológico en el cual el registro de la vida humana se compenetra con el constante movimiento de fuerzas del campo de lo político. De modo tal que la figura del Centauro,en el pensamiento de Esposito,permitirá entrecruzar conflicto y vida y, a partir de ello, explorar en algunas conclusiones acerca de las características que configuran la vida política del ser humano y la especificidad del pensamiento político italiano contemporáneo. Palabras claves: Maquiavelo, Esposito, conflicto, política y vida
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32. R. Esposito, Le persone e le cose
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Carlo Molinar Min
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esposito ,people ,things ,biopolitics ,anthropology ,affordance ,visibility ,Philosophy (General) ,B1-5802 - Abstract
This is a review of the book of R. Esposito, Le persone e le cose. Torino: Einaudi, 2014, pp. 136, € 10,00.
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33. Differenza italiana: la política como sujeto. Machiavelli en la lectura de Roberto Esposito.
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Serratore, Constanza
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In the present article we work, at first, on the question of the Pensiero italiano and we define what could be its own characteristics. For this, we pick a part of the discussion of recent years, taking into account the most prominent partners. In a second moment, we work from the position of Roberto Esposito and his formulations on the Pensiero italiano. Finally, and with the intention of exposing concretely through Machiavelli, one of the greatest representatives of the Italian thought, the characteristics previously defined, we develop and analyze some passages of Il Principe. This genealogy of the Pensiero italiano, which led us from a contemporary discussion to the very letter of Machiavelli, allows us to enroll Roberto Esposito in the tradition of differenza italiana. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2018
34. Nietzsche y la biopolítica: Cuatro lecturas de Nietzsche como pensador biopolítico
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Vanessa Lemm
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nietzsche ,esposito ,biopolítica ,inmunidad ,tanatopolítica ,Philosophy. Psychology. Religion ,Philosophy (General) ,B1-5802 - Abstract
La recepción durante el sigloXXse preguntó si la filosofía nietzscheana era a-, im- oanti-política, es decir, si podía ser asimilada por la democracia, o si era antimoderna,elitista y reaccionaria. El italiano Roberto Esposito ha propuesto leerla como formandoe informando el paradigma de la biopolítica. Se discuten cuatro lecturas de esabiopolítica: como formadora del paradigma de la inmunidad, como tanatopolítica,como liberal y neoliberal, y como biopolítica afirmativa.
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35. ‘no human shape’: Unformed Life in The Unnamable
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Heffer, Byron, author
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36. Immunity and Community in Esposito, Derrida and Agamben
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Rosàs Tosas, Mar and Rosàs Tosas, Mar
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Roberto Esposito (1998; 2002; 2008) examines how immunological apparatuses originally designed to protect communities end up undermining communities. This paper explores comparatively his view on the interplay between community and immunity with Giorgio Agamben’s and Jacques Derrida’s, although in their works these notions appear under other labels. Beyond pointing out their similarities, the paper concludes by analyzing what, in our view, constitute the raison d’être of their ultimate and irreconcilable differences: Agamben’s approach is antinomic, while Derrida’s is aporetic and Esposito’s is rather dialectical., Roberto Esposito (1998; 2002; 2008) examines how immunological apparatuses originally designed to protect communities end up undermining communities. This paper explores comparatively his view on the interplay between community and immunity with Giorgio Agamben’s and Jacques Derrida’s, although in their works these notions appear under other labels. Beyond pointing out their similarities, the paper concludes by analyzing what, in our view, constitute the raison d’être of their ultimate and irreconcilable differences: Agamben’s approach is antinomic, while Derrida’s is aporetic and Esposito’s is rather dialectical.
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37. La presencia del nietzscheanismo en la biopolítica contemporánea
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García-Granero , Marina and García-Granero , Marina
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La filosofía de Nietzsche anticipó notablemente el umbral de la modernidad biológica al conceptualizar el alcance fisiológico de la moral, la política y la religión, así como su instrumentalización con fines de control social. El objetivo de este artículo es analizar el estímulo que ha representado la filosofía de Nietzsche para algunos de los principales pensadores de la cuestión biopolítica, en concreto, Michel Foucault, Roberto Esposito y Peter Sloterdijk, y desvelar en qué medida sus núcleos conceptuales convergen y divergen. La aportación concreta reside en señalar algunos de los vínculos que articulan el tema de la disciplina y la cría (Zucht und Züchtung) con la configuración de la biopolítica como una de las principales corrientes filosóficas actuales, analizar las interpretaciones que dichos pensadores han formulado sobre la cuestión de la Züchtung y resaltar así la capacidad heurística de la filosofía nietzscheana para el diagnóstico de nuestro presente., La filosofia de Nietzsche va anticipar notablement el llindar de la modernitat biològica en conceptualitzar l'abast fisiològic de la moral, la política i la religió, així com la seva instrumentalització amb finalitats de control social. L'objectiu d'aquest article és analitzar l'estímul que ha representat la filosofia de Nietzsche per a alguns dels principals pensadors de la qüestió biopolítica, en concret, Michel Foucault, Roberto Esposito i Peter Sloterdijk, i revelar en quina mesura els seus nuclis conceptuals convergeixen i divergeixen. L'aportació concreta rau a assenyalar alguns dels vincles que articulen el tema de la disciplina i la cria (Zucht und Züchtung) amb la configuració de la biopolítica com un dels principals corrents filosòfics actuals, analitzar les interpretacions que aquests pensadors han formulat sobre la qüestió de la Züchtung i ressaltar així la capacitat heurística de la filosofia nietzscheana per al diagnòstic del nostre present., Nietzsche notably anticipated the threshold of biological modernity, when he conceptualized the physiological scope of morals, politics and religion, as well as their instrumentalization with the aim of social control. The aim of this paper is to analyze the stimulus that Nietzsche's philosophy has represented for some of the main philosophers of biopolitics, namely Michel Foucault, Roberto Esposito and Peter Sloterdijk, and to reveal to what extent their core concepts converge and diverge. The specific contribution is to point out some of the links between the theme of discipline and breeding (Zucht und Züchtung) and the configuration of biopolitics as one of the main philosophical currents, to analyze whether and how those philosophers have interpreted the question of Züchtung in Nietzsche's philosophy, and to stress the heuristic capacity of Nietzschean philosophy for the diagnosis of current social issues.
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38. IMUNITETO SAMPRATA JACQUES'O DERRIDA IR ROBERTO ESPOSITO FILOSOFIJOJE.
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Žukauskaitė, Audronė
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- 2018
39. El mito del agua en la literatura mexicana y 2666 de Roberto Bolaño
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Ursula Hennigfeld
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water ,bachelard ,bolaño ,esposito ,foucault ,Language and Literature - Abstract
The article presents an analysis of the aquatic metaphors in Roberto Bolaño’s novel 2666, relating them to cultural myths about water. First, some theoretical considerations about the myth of water are presented (L’eau et les rêves by Gaston Bachelard, ‘L’eau et la folie’ by Michel Foucault and Communitas by Roberto Esposito), then some Mexican literary discourses that deal with water (poems by Amado Nervo and José Gorostiza, the novel Los muros de agua by José Revueltas) to end in an analysis of Bolaño’s novel. Examples of dreams with water are interpreted (Morini’s dream of the swimming pool, Hans Reiter’s escape through the river), of mysterious events (Pelletier who discovers a lump on the beach, Hans Reiter as the "seaweed boy"), of dire omens (the murder of Marius Newell) or of paradoxical analogies (Lalo Cura who compares the sea with the desert).
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40. Beyond the Person: Roberto Esposito and the Body as ‘Common Good’.
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Serafini, Luca
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PHILOSOPHERS , *METAPHYSICS , *THEORY of knowledge - Abstract
In this review of Persons and Things, recently translated into English and published by Polity Press, we discuss how this text investigates some of the most important themes of Roberto Esposito’s thought. Specifically, the book continues the process of constructing an idea of community intended as lack, gift and impropriety that the Italian philosopher has been developing since the publication of Communitas. In this case, it is the notion of body that demolishes the metaphysical apparatus that has conditioned the moulding of the philosophical-legal lexicon of the Western tradition. Doomed to constant submission to the rational sphere of the person, hence assimilated to the materiality of a mere thing, the body can win back its full dignity if it is considered as a ‘living body’. Only in this way, according to Esposito, is it possible to move past the ‘proprietary’ and subjectivistic notion that, in philosophy as well as in law, has determined a clear-cut separation between persons (intended as rational beings) and things (conceived as inert objects), as well as between ‘superior’ and ‘inferior’ persons. Thus, in Persons and Things, the body becomes an actual vector for a trans-individualization of the individual, for an opening to the common, public, and communitarian dimension. According to Esposito, this process is favoured by the changes brought about by biotechnologies and science in general, not only in medical practices, but also in the legal formulations that follow from them. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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41. Biopolítica e Filosofia em Roberto Esposito: Considerações Introdutórias.
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Chiquetti Rodrigues, Renê, Prezzi Santos, Diego, and Garbellini Carnio, Henrique
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- 2017
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42. How Should a Person Be (Transpersonal)? Ben Lerner, Roberto Esposito, and the Biopolitics of the Future.
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Vermeulen, Pieter
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POLITICS & literature , *BIOPOLITICS (Philosophy) - Abstract
This essay complements Roberto Esposito’s analysis of the political category of the person by outlining the role of literature, and especially the genre of the novel, in consolidating this category and allowing it to do its political and affective work. The essay shows how Ben Lerner’s 2014 novel 10:04 dismantles three central features of the traditional novel’s poetics of the person: its investment in the notion of literary character, its use of fictionality, and its structural reliance on the narrative future. Lerner’s novel, like Esposito’s biopolitical work, aims to overcome the hierarchical divisions within human life that are endemic to the category of the person and that have historically fostered biopolitical violence. Both projects intimate a less destructive politics—what Lerner calls “the transpersonal” and Esposito “the impersonal.” [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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43. Biopolitics and the Enemy: On Law, Rights and Proper Subjects.
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Hardes, Jennifer Jane
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BIOPOLITICS (Philosophy) ,RIGHT to die ,HOSTILITY - Abstract
This article examines the operation of “enmity” in right to die legal appeals. The article asks: (1) why does the law rely on articulations of enmity to rationalize its decisions and (2) what might this tell us about how biopolitics operates in the contemporary neoliberal moment? Drawing on the insight of Roberto Esposito the article makes three key points. First, it notes that biopolitics operating in the contemporary neoliberal moment is increasingly focused on closures around individual human subjects, or what Esposito calls mechanisms of “immunization.” Second, it notes that discourses of enmity are perpetuated through legal right to die appeals that shore up these immunity mechanisms, which can partly explain why right to die claims fail on appeal. Finally, it considers more affirmative ways forward in both theory and practice relating to legal right to die appeals. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2017
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44. Biopolítica e Filosofia em Roberto Esposito: Considerações Introdutórias.
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Rodrigues, Renê Chiquetti, Santos, Diego Prezzi, and Carnio, Henrique Garbellini
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- 2017
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45. Ontologías de lo común en el pensamiento de Giorgio Agamben y Roberto Esposito: entre ética y política
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Matías Saidel
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comunidad ,biopolítica ,agamben ,esposito ,forma-de-vida ,impolítico ,Philosophy (General) ,B1-5802 - Abstract
El presente trabajo reflexiona sobre el pensamiento de la comunidad en Giorgio Agamben y Roberto Esposito. Ambos interrogan lo común desde una perspectiva impolítica que intenta deconstruir los presupuestos de la metafísica y de la filosofía política tradicionales para poder elaborar una conceptualidad afirmativa en clave ontológica. En estos autores predomina el recurso a la figura de la comunidad, situada luego en el horizonte de la biopolítica, ya que la vida deviene el centro hacia el cual apuntarían los dispositivos de poder y las formas de subjetivación política actuales. El trabajo plantea como interrogante si estos abordajes ontológicos logran dar cuenta plenamente de lo común en términos políticos o sólo éticos.
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46. El lugar del pasado en la ideología nazi
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Ángela Uribe Botero
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mito político ,nazismo ,ideología ,filosofía política ,himmler ,heinrich ,arendt ,hannah ,lacoue ,labarthe ,phillippe ,nancy ,jean ,luc ,esposito ,roberto ,Political science - Abstract
La idea propuesta en este artículo se lleva a cabo a partir del análisis conceptual del término “ideología”, tal como es usado por Hannah Arendt en Los orígenes del totalitarismo. El contexto semántico que se impone con el uso que hace Arendt de este término es revisado a la luz de la siguiente objeción propuesta por Phillippe Lacoue- Labarthe y Jean-Luc Nancy: el término ideología, tal como lo usa esta autora, no da cuenta de una de las características más importantes de la ideología nazi: el mito. Con el propósito de ilustrar esta idea, se aplica el sentido del término “mito político” propuesto por Roberto Esposito a algunas palabras contenidas en los discursos de Heinrich Himmler. Esto conduce, en la parte final del texto, a proponer, también en discusión con Arendt, un giro en la forma como podría llegar a ser entendida la relación con el pasado en la ideología nazi.
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47. Terza persona : Esposito e a filosofia do impessoal
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Fernando Gigante Ferraz
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Philosophy ,Philosophie, Theologie ,ddc:100 ,B1-5802 ,Impersonal ,Third person ,Right ,Esposito ,Impessoal ,Terza persona ,Direito ,Philosophy (General) ,Philosophy, Ethics, Religion ,Philosophie - Abstract
EnglishAt present, there seems to be no other category that enjoys unanimity as generalized and transversal, as that of person. No speech that purports to be in public in a theoretical, juridical and politically correct manner questions its nobility, especially in its nexus with the law. The rights of the person are precisely what should not be misrepresented. There is, however, an inescapable paradox of our time: never as now, the nobility of the category of person has been so incensed, but also never as now, so many human lives have been so humiliated by hunger, misery, epidemics, exiles, etc. The aim of this text is to follow a path already opened by some French-Italian thinkers who criticize this unanimity. portuguesNa atualidade, parece nao haver nenhuma outra categoria que goze de unanimidade tao generalizada e transversal, quanto o de pessoa. Nenhum discurso que pretenda estar em publico de forma teorico, juridico e politicamente correta coloca em questao sua nobreza, principalmente em seu nexo com o direito. Os direitos da pessoa sao justamente sobre o que nao se deve tergiversar. No entanto, ha um paradoxo incontornavel do nosso tempo: nunca como agora, a nobreza da categoria de pessoa foi tao incensada, mas tambem nunca como agora, tantas vidas humanas foram tao humilhadas pela fome, miseria, epidemias, exilios, etc. O objetivo desse texto e seguir uma trilha ja aberta por alguns pensadores de matriz franco-italiana de critica a essa unanimidade.
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48. Unfixing the university:Higher education and the ontology of travel
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Smedegaard Ernst Bengtsen, Søren and Gildersleve, Ryan
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Mobility ,University ,Travel ,Futures ,Nomad ethos ,Ontology ,Movement ,Culture ,Lingis ,Hopeful ,Philosophy of Higher Education ,Transformation ,Motion ,Philosophy ,Identity ,Esposito ,Higher education - Abstract
Academics travel around the world in a measure and with a momentum not witnessed before. Higher education policies increasingly favour academic mobility, exchange agreements, internationalization of staff and students, and truly global institutional profiles and strategies. Such policy is found in faculty rewards systems, enrollment management regimes, and government accountability systems. Paradoxically, universities brand themselves increasingly as individual institutions, with often fenced in, or even walled in, campus areas, complete with access codes, membership cards, and material and corporate protectionism agendas. Even with a, seemingly, global and societal openness, universities withdraw into the brick and mortar fortresses (Temple, 2014), protecting credentials and creating hidden elites (Ivy League, Russel Group, other university ‘clubs’). In a sense, universities become sites of bordering – expanding their influence and prestige by expelling those people and things deemed undesirable (i.e., outsiders). In all their inclusion and ‘out-reach projects’, universities become still more defensive and isolated from the societies, cultures, and communities around them – and, thereby, easier to become ‘under siege’. The university immunizes itself from genuine engagement with those outside of its borders. We draw inspiration from the notion of academic nomadism and pilgrimage found in medieval universities and academic communities, and the erosion of the European monastic ideal of ‘stabilitas loci’ (Ridder-Symoens, 2003). Through movement-centered ontologies (Lingis, 1998; Thomas Nail, 2015), we show that the potential of ‘living reason’ (Barnett & Bengtsen, 2019) is still to be realized if universities should truly become integrated and submerged into their societal and cultural surroundings. Indeed, an ontology of motion and travel is inscribed into knowledge and our knowing efforts, when they extend beyond lecture theatres and course syllabi and are woven into, and provides life to, the architecture of buildings, city design and layout, social norms and moral codes, and social and welfare work. With Nail (2015), we argue that students are inherently movement-based positions. In a traditional sense, students are moving from adolescence into adulthood. They are moving from compulsory education to tertiary/elective education. Students often move to a college campus and away from home communities. Some students are moving between social classes, while others are moving from passive recipient of class standing into authorship and producer/sustainer of social class. Conceptualizing the student within the figure of the migrant holds great promise in excavating how the becoming-student might engage/be engaged in building and producing the new university. In this sense, we suggest unfixing the university from its static commitments to historically privileged knowledges and memberships, setting it free to explore and invigorate with a new velocity of nomadism, pilgrimage, travel, and/or migration how knowledge might become seen as truly communal, organic, and always in a state of transformation. Further, we show that the deepest form of academic travel is the movement from self to other (Levinas, 2003), which involves not only an intellectual vulnerability and exposure to the criticism and skepticism of others – but, and even more demanding still, an ethical relation that makes creative intellectual achievements possible. The university becomes unfixed through establishing itself not as a fenced-in space of privilege and remoteness, but as a community of indebted strangers (Esposito & Campbell, 2008) – an alien community. Such a community engenders knowledge producers and the constitution of knowledges to one another, effectively re-assembling knowledge to meet the demands of the world’s integrated problems and promise. Universities, we argue, have become under siege exactly because current global drivers about academic mobility, the transferability of knowledge, and the internationalization of higher education are only rooted in surface levels of the university – whereby the institution, its members and practices, do not truly connect and engage with their surroundings and wider social and cultural ecosystems (Barnett, 2018). Bringing out the depth-levels of an ontology of travel will enable universities to dissolve notions of siege (imagined and real) and to emerge naked and unfixed – organically integrated into the terroir of the societies and cultures that sustain academic communities. Academics travel around the world in a measure and with a momentum not witnessed before. Higher education policies increasingly favour academic mobility, exchange agreements, internationalization of staff and students, and truly global institutional profiles and strategies. Such policy is found in faculty rewards systems, enrollment management regimes, and government accountability systems.Paradoxically, universities brand themselves increasingly as individual institutions, with often fenced in, or even walled in, campus areas, complete with access codes, membership cards, and material and corporate protectionism agendas. Even with a, seemingly, global and societal openness, universities withdraw into the brick and mortar fortresses (Temple, 2014), protecting credentials and creating hidden elites (Ivy League, Russel Group, other university ‘clubs’). In a sense, universities become sites of bordering – expanding their influence and prestige by expelling those people and things deemed undesirable (i.e., outsiders). In all their inclusion and ‘out-reach projects’, universities become still more defensive and isolated from the societies, cultures, and communities around them – and, thereby, easier to become ‘under siege’. The university immunizes itself from genuine engagement with those outside of its borders.We draw inspiration from the notion of academic nomadism and pilgrimage found in medieval universities and academic communities, and the erosion of the European monastic ideal of ‘stabilitas loci’ (Ridder-Symoens, 2003). Through movement-centered ontologies (Lingis, 1998; Thomas Nail, 2015), we show that the potential of ‘living reason’ (Barnett & Bengtsen, 2019) is still to be realized if universities should truly become integrated and submerged into their societal and cultural surroundings. Indeed, an ontology of motion and travel is inscribed into knowledge and our knowing efforts, when they extend beyond lecture theatres and course syllabi and are woven into, and provides life to, the architecture of buildings, city design and layout, social norms and moral codes, and social and welfare work.With Nail (2015), we argue that students are inherently movement-based positions. In a traditional sense, students are moving from adolescence into adulthood. They are moving from compulsory education to tertiary/elective education. Students often move to a college campus and away from home communities. Some students are moving between social classes, while others are moving from passive recipient of class standing into authorship and producer/sustainer of social class. Conceptualizing the student within the figure of the migrant holds great promise in excavating how the becoming-student might engage/be engaged in building and producing the new university. In this sense, we suggest unfixing the university from its static commitments to historically privileged knowledges and memberships, setting it free to explore and invigorate with a new velocity of nomadism, pilgrimage, travel, and/or migration how knowledge might become seen as truly communal, organic, and always in a state of transformation.Further, we show that the deepest form of academic travel is the movement from self to other (Levinas, 2003), which involves not only an intellectual vulnerability and exposure to the criticism and skepticism of others – but, and even more demanding still, an ethical relation that makes creative intellectual achievements possible. The university becomes unfixed through establishing itself not as a fenced-in space of privilege and remoteness, but as a community of indebted strangers (Esposito & Campbell, 2008) – an alien community. Such a community engenders knowledge producers and the constitution of knowledges to one another, effectively re- assembling knowledge to meet the demands of the world’s integrated problems and promise.Universities, we argue, have become under siege exactly because current global drivers about academic mobility, the transferability of knowledge, and the internationalization of higher education are only rooted in surface levels of the university – whereby the institution, its members and practices, do not truly connect and engage with their surroundings and wider social and cultural ecosystems (Barnett, 2018). Bringing out the depth-levels of an ontology of travel will enable universities to dissolve notions of siege (imagined and real) and to emerge naked and unfixed – organically integrated into the terroir of the societies and cultures that sustain academic communities.Indicative referncesBarnett, R. & Bengtsen, S. (2019). Knowledge and the University. Reclaiming Life. London & New York: RoutledgeEsposito, R. & Campbell, T. (2008). Bios. Biopolitics and Philosophy. University of Minnesota PressLevinas, E. (2003). Totality and Infinity. An Essay on Exteriority. Translated by Alphonso Lingis. Pittsburgh: Duquesne University PressNail, T. (2015). The Figure of the Migrant. Redwood City: Stanford University PressTemple, P. (Ed.) (2014). The Physical University. Countours of Space and Place in HigherEducation. London & New York: Routledge
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49. A abordagem imunitária de Roberto Esposito: biopolítica e medicalização
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Marcos Alexandre Gomes Nalli
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Esposito ,Biopolítica ,Comunidade ,Imunidade ,Medicalização ,Vida ,Social Sciences ,Social sciences (General) ,H1-99 - Abstract
O objeto do presente artigo é fornecer uma breve apresentação da filosofia de Esposito acerca da biopolítica à luz de suas considerações sobre a pertinência hermenêutica do “paradigma da imunização”, para seu entendimento bem com suas implicações na medicalização da vida. Terminamos por apresentar de modo sumário como o filósofo italiano crê ser possível conceber a biopolítica numa outra estrutura semântica, que tem a vida não mais como objeto de política e sim como realização da potência inovadora da vida.
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- 2012
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50. Beyond the Immunization Paradigm: Biopolitics in the Philosophical Project of Roberto Esposito
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Mikołaj Ratajczak
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Esposito ,Foucault ,Agamben ,Nancy ,Hobbes – Virchow ,biopolityka ,wspolnota ,immunizacja ,ciało ,nowoczesność ,system immunologiczny. ,Social Sciences - Abstract
The aim of the text is to reconstruct thoseaspects of Roberto Esposito’s philosophy that build thecore of his theory. The reconstruction focuses on theconcepts of communization, immunization, modernityand biopolitics and tries to explicate the relationshipbetween these terms. The element that binds commu-nization and immunization is negativity, that at thesame time makes the common life possible and presentsthe biggest threat to community. Because the dialecticsbetween community and immunity touches the relationbetween life and death, the problem of communityinvolves the question of biopolitics.
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