°Bios, Immunity, Life

February 14, 2008

Long-awaited, and thanks to the heads up from (and work by) Timothy Campbell, the edition of diacritics: “Bios, Immunity, Life: The Thought of Roberto Esposito”. Here are a few excerpts:

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°Worlding and immunity

July 6, 2007

In “Ontology at Present Tense. Community and Immunity in the Global Times”, Esposito writes of the “immunity device”, which he concisely summarises as the “exigency of exemption and protection”:

which originally belonged to the medical and juridical milieus, extended progressively to all the sectors and all the idioms of our life thus having eventually become the real and symbolic coagulation point of the contemporary experience.

He goes on to talk about immunology in medical discourse and practices, as well as the appearance of similar in information technology (the virus, etc). But it’s his linking of this with the theologico-political which I find particularly compelling, but also unsatisfying:

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°Impolitical

October 13, 2006

Brett has posted a reading of Esposito’s Categorie dell’ impolitico (The Categories of the Impolitical):

[…] For Esposito, it is crucial to distinguish the impolitical from the apolitical. While the latter determines the political negatively, sitting outside or beyond it, the former is coextensive with politics and, indeed, limns it.

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°biopolitico

October 9, 2006

Timothy Campbell’s “Bíos, Immunity, Life: The Thought of Roberto Esposito” [pdf]. Those not familiar with Esposito’s work - (since it’s yet to be translated into English), but nevertheless following the discussions about biopolitics through Foucault, Agamben, Hardt and Negri, et al - will find it of interest, I think; as should those who want to explore Derrida’s discussions of auto-immunisation. [+]

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°Public versus street

April 13, 2006

Speaking of the politics of publicum versus that of the streets (below and before), here’s a sign hung in the George Washington library stairwell (I think) yesterday:

As the future policy writers of America, gather with your fellow students to discuss how to avoid letting a situation develop like the one in France–where the streets circumvent sound public policy.

And, as an aside on the impolitical, those with an interest in the writings of Roberto Esposito might be pleased to know … Relatedly, on the cut of politics, the name and the border, Keith generously transcribes Jean-Luc Nancy’s “Cut Throat Sun” over at Metastable Equilibrium. La raza - the razor.

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°Community, immunity

March 11, 2006

community is, as the etymology shows, the exact opposite of any institution of immunity, in the sense of a protection of propriety and belonging that might think it could indefinitely assure itself against the risks of difference and conflict, and thus death, by pushing them back beyond its borders (even by establishing borders to protect itself against them, and ipso facto creating points where conflict and death accummulate under the sign of ‘difference’)

- Roberto Esposito, Immunitas. Protezione e Negazione della Vita

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