Mauzer’s Blog

In this weblog, however fragmentary and incomplete, we shall try to bring to life the memory of a an extraordinary person, a man who appears in revolutionary archives as a character without a face or a voice.

STATE OF EXCEPTION

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The state of exception is essentially based on a suspension of the juridical order, which makes it possible for an individual to be deprived of his or her condition as a citizen, or political being, so that his or her life is reduced to mere biological existence. As a figure of necessity, the state of exception appears (alongside revolution and de facto establishment of a constitutional system) as an “illegal” but perfectly “juridical and constitutional” measure that is realized in production of new norms.

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February 28, 2008 at 1:40 pm

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