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  • Bare Life’s Bare Essentials: When All You’ve Got is Hope – The State of Exception in The Road, District 9 and Blindness

    Author(s)
    Bourke, Greg
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    Bourke, Greg
    Year published
    2014
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    Abstract
    This article operationalizes the work of Giorgio Agamben, through the prism of popular culture and filmic studies. Drawing extensively upon the cinematic experiences of The Road, District 9 and Blindness, a critique is formulated of this pre-eminent scholar's theory. Beginning with an analysis of the state of exception, Agamben's chilling assertions are examined. The remainder of the article then discusses the three films, as they provide the perfect vehicle for challenging Agamben's obsessions and contradictions. Although tied together by the common thread of the camp, the hidden matrix of modernity, each film occupies a ...
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    This article operationalizes the work of Giorgio Agamben, through the prism of popular culture and filmic studies. Drawing extensively upon the cinematic experiences of The Road, District 9 and Blindness, a critique is formulated of this pre-eminent scholar's theory. Beginning with an analysis of the state of exception, Agamben's chilling assertions are examined. The remainder of the article then discusses the three films, as they provide the perfect vehicle for challenging Agamben's obsessions and contradictions. Although tied together by the common thread of the camp, the hidden matrix of modernity, each film occupies a distinct position along a spectrum of governmentality. Ultimately, what is exposed goes to the heart of the sensational, diabolical and disturbing world Agamben incarnates.
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    Journal Title
    Law, Culture and the Humanities
    Volume
    10
    Issue
    3
    DOI
    https://doi.org/10.1177/1743872111433671
    Subject
    Law not elsewhere classified
    Law
    Publication URI
    http://hdl.handle.net/10072/65666
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