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Zones of Exception: Biopolitical Territories in the Neoliberal Era
- Diacritics
- Johns Hopkins University Press
- Volume 36, Number 2, Summer 2006
- pp. 99-108
- 10.1353/dia.2008.0012
- Article
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"Zones of Exception: Biopolitical Territories of the Neoliberal Era" explores the biopolitical in Roberto Esposito together with the notion of exception in Giorgio Agamben to think diverse scenarios of social, economic, and cultural conflict of the neoliberal era. Focusing on the Argentine piqueteros and the clandestini at the Centers of Temporary Permanence in Italy, we discuss how the economic rationality of neoliberal rule both produces "bare life" and is haunted by its disruption, in ways that neoliberalism can't fully contain. This dislocation, its paradoxical and unstable nature between bodies and territories, may become the instance of an actual or potential resistance.