tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301538619639403161.post6394034138320701934..comments2023-10-06T13:48:51.935-07:00Comments on Work Resumed on the Tower: A short comment on Agamben's Homo Sacerrobert woodhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14467035173491589640noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301538619639403161.post-21389768814585865002011-10-29T14:32:46.222-07:002011-10-29T14:32:46.222-07:00Ultimately, the Negri I'm thinking of is the w...Ultimately, the Negri I'm thinking of is the work of the 1980's, particularly the work on Spinoza and the lectures on the Grundrisse, although Virno is also an excellent source for thinking through these questions as well. (You could probably just go to the new Foucault lectures, which are far more interesting.)robert woodhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14467035173491589640noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6301538619639403161.post-72849440686725246752011-10-27T07:00:38.376-07:002011-10-27T07:00:38.376-07:00The first that comes to mind is the absence of res...<em>The first that comes to mind is the absence of resistance within Agamben’s model.</em> Yes. Even if you call it "less" than <em>resistance</em>, this seems to me to be the flaw, definitely fatal, in his theory of the state of exception. You don't even have to engage in vulgar autonomism to make this critique; he seems to think the state is just imposed and never negotiated and reproduced. Actually, that doesn't capture the whole of his corpus, but the way his books and concepts have been kept separated and pure evinces a sorry kind of dialectics. (I say all that somewhat regrettably, since I love his coming community stuff.)Erichttps://www.blogger.com/profile/00749190768315704456noreply@blogger.com