The Circulation of Camps in the Peripheries and the Desire for Undesirables

Ever since Giorgio Agamben wrote that ‘the camp may be regarded as the hidden matrix and nomos of the political space in which we are still living’ (1998, 166), a heated debate over how to read these irritating lines took place. It has been argued repeatedly, especially among German-speaking scholar...

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Main Author:	Andreas Oberprantacher
Format:	Article
Language:	English
Published:	professionaldreamers 2016-09-01
Series:	lo Squaderno
Subjects:	Provincial Lives lo Squaderno No. 41
Online Access:	http://www.losquaderno.professionaldreamers.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/losquaderno41.pdf#page=39

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spelling	doaj-bdba63800fb946159ec1f2a5a5ad7b432020-11-24T22:42:56Zengprofessionaldreamerslo Squaderno1973-91412016-09-0111413942The Circulation of Camps in the Peripheries and the Desire for UndesirablesAndreas Oberprantacher0University of InnsbruckEver since Giorgio Agamben wrote that ‘the camp may be regarded as the hidden matrix and nomos of the political space in which we are still living’ (1998, 166), a heated debate over how to read these irritating lines took place. It has been argued repeatedly, especially among German-speaking scholars, that it amounts to an irresponsible nonsense to suggest, as Agamben is apparently doing with his essay Homo Sacer, that there were some sort of arcane continuities between the past concentration and extermination camps on the one hand and the present detention and deportation centers on the other.http://www.losquaderno.professionaldreamers.net/wp-content/uploads/2016/09/losquaderno41.pdf#page=39Provincial Liveslo Squaderno No. 41
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The Circulation of Camps in the Peripheries and the Desire for Undesirables

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