JURISDIÇÃO CONSTITUCIONAL E POLÍTICA: UM DIÁLOGO COM ARENDT E AGAMBEN (CONSTITUTIONAL JURISDICTION AND POLITICS: A DIALOGUE WITH ARENDT AND AGAMBEN)

Neo-eugenics: A Feminist Critique of Agamben

IN CONTEMPORARY AMERICAN POVERTY POLICY, the welfare mother is exposed to harsh treatment that is designed to maintain her participation in the low-wage labor force and, arguably, to discipline wage labor as a whole by restricting the alternatives to wage earning. I would contend that she is also being subjected to an extraordinarily invasive form of sexual regulation, ranging from teen pregnan...

Benjamin, Agamben, and the Paradox of Translation

In his paper, "Benjamin, Agamben, and the Paradox of Translation," Paolo Bartoloni offers a theoretical discourse on translation that goes beyond the traditional precincts of linguistics and literary theory as well as the disciplines of cultural studies and postcolonial theory. Bartoloni argues that more recently, the discourse on translation has begun to incorporate epistemological concerns, d...

Hannah Arendt, Totalitarianism, and the Social Sciences

Stopping the Anthropological Machine: Agamben with Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty

To render inoperative the machine that governs our conception of man will therefore mean … to risk ourselves in this emptiness: the suspension of suspension, Shabbat of both animal and man. (Agamben, The Open 92) In The Open, Giorgio Agamben diagnoses the history of both science and philosophy as part of what he calls the " anthropological machine " through which the human is created with and a...

Fuller and Arendt: A Happy Marriage? Comment on Rundle