The Prospect, objectively, of Killing; Rejected
impassmarked
the water
like clouds
nothing juridical
at all
scalpel
waltzes
in italian
advances
da vinci
my surgeon tips
to the bone
power
the body
you'll be better
tomorrow
yr wind
is quicker
than blood
then blood
so large
yr skin
a state
we (yr surgeons) fight
to become
the water
like clouds
nothing juridical
at all
scalpel
waltzes
in italian
advances
da vinci
my surgeon tips
to the bone
power
the body
you'll be better
tomorrow
yr wind
is quicker
than blood
then blood
so large
yr skin
a state
we (yr surgeons) fight
to become
posted by Hayes at 9:33 PM
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" The question 'In what way does the living being have language?' corresponds exactly to the question "In what way does bare life dwell in the polis?' The living being has logos by taking away and conserving its own voice in it, even as it dwells in the polis by letting its own bare life be excluded, as an exception, within it. Politics therefore appears as the truly fundamental structure of western metaphysics insofar as it occupies the threshold on which the relation between the living being and the logos is realized. In the 'politicization' of bare life--the metaphysical task par excellence--the humanity of living man is decided. In assuming this task, modernity does nothing other than declare its own faithfulness to the essential structure of the metaphysical tradition. The fundamental categorial pair of western politics is not that of friend/enemy but that of bare life/political existence, zoe/bios, exclusion/inclusion. There is politics because man is the living being who, in language, separates and opposes himself in relation to that bare life in an inclusive exclusion."
--Giorgio Agamben from Homo Sacer
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