Improper Life: Technology and Biopolitics from Heidegger to Agamben

Index

. 185 Agamben, Giorgio: on animalization and humanization, 59; bare life and, 36, 40, 61–65, 81, 108–9, 168n95; call of technology and, 16; on camp and its relation to improper, 39–41; common use and, 80; contemporary and, 165n43; exclusionary inclusion and, 24; Heidegger and, 31, 34, 37–39; messianism and, 50, 115, 164n27; on metaphor, 163n7; music and, 167n90; oblivion of Being and, 10; oikonomia and, 44, 49–50, 53–57, 63–64, 68, 166n66; on oath, 60–64; paradigm and, 31, 41–42, 63; potentiality and, 81, 126, 164n11; on profane and sacred, 34, 43–44, 47–49; state of exception and, 2, 10, 35, 42, 164n11; substitution of human with singularity and, 29; technology, homo sacer, and 10, 48, 81–82; testimony and, 41–42; thanatopolitics and, 43–44 Apian, Peter, 86 Arendt, Hannah, 3, 33, 50, 63 Armstrong, Neil, 88 attention: composition and, 146–48; forms of life and, 144–46, 153; and haeccetic space, 145–47; as immanent critique, 148; in opposition to judgment, 140–41, 143–44; as play, 127, 150–52; play and, 152–53, 156; power of, 143–44; as practice of bíos, 142; relationality and, 146–48; response to biopower and, 145–46. See also modernity Augustine, 67–68 Bacon, Francis, 145, 180n77 Badiou, Alain, 82, 103–4 Ball, Hugo, 137 Bataille, George, 34, 148–49; limits of thought and, 164n10; on “love and fusion,” 181n101 Behaim, Martin, 86 Benjamin, Walter, ix, 127, 153–54, 163n3 Bersani, Leo, 179n55 Bichat, Xavier, 37 Biehl, João, 74–75 biopower: Agamben and, 37–38; liberalism and, 73–74; mastery and, 141; and mode of subjectivity, 135–36; multitude and, 56–57; of populations, 120–21; racism and, 107–8; relation to death, 58; self and, 178–79n54; during World War II, 22 Bíos (Esposito), 3, 17, 65, 73, 77 Birth of Biopolitics, The (Foucault), 49, 63, 73, 126, 174n3 I N D E X 186 . I N D E X Bosteels, Bruno, 169n30 Bourdieu, Pierre, 179n67, 179–80n68 Breton, Andrè, 137 Broch, Hermann, 95–96 Butler, Judith, 137–38, 178–79n54 Cacciari, Massimo, 125, 161n34, 173n84 Churchill, Winston, 22 Coming Community, The (Agamben), viii, 34–37, 91 Communitas (Esposito), viii, 2, 160n18, 160n19 community: relation to communication, 6, 28, 36; Esposito’s reading of, 96, 101, 104; human and, 129; identity politics and, 102; and improper households, 84, 96, 100, 106–8; modernity and political, 90–91, 104; purpose of, 75 Connolly, William 154, 182n121 Crary, Jonathan, 143, 175n10 Deleuze, Gilles, ix; art and, 180n79; aesthetic modes of existence and, 65–66; composition and, 145–46; haeccetic space and, 127, 145, 147– 48; montage and, 146–47, 152. See also dispositif Derrida, Jacques: and apes, 159n10; and Heidegger’s photograph, 159n16; critique of History of Sexuality Volume 1 and, 177n34; on “monstrasity” and the proper, 158n2; on performativity in relation to Agamben’s oath, 60; unsure play and, 181–82n110 Dessauer, Friedrich, 173n85 dispositif (apparatus): charisma and, 69–70; Christian roots of, 71; common and, 47; Deleuze and, 45– 46, 48, 65; desubjectification and, 37–38, 41, 48–50, 66, 163n7; Foucault and, 30, 45–46; government and, 48–49; homo sacer and, 48; of household, 97–98; oikonomia and, 2, 49–50, 55–56, 64; of person, 66–78, 99, 112; and personhood, 2; proliferation of, 45, 49–51, 56, 58, 63, 81; of security, 123; and strategic relations of force, 130; of truth, 130– 31; sovereignty and, 58–59; technē and, 64; Trinity and, 67–68, 166n66 Engelhardt, Hugo, 74 Epicureans, 136 Esposito, Roberto: viii, 56; common law and, 80; critique of Heidegger in, 76, 160n18; distinction between person and subject and, 66; and Enlightenment, 77; and gift-giving, 160n19; immunity, impolitical and, 24; immunization paradigm and, 31, 72, 111; politics of life and, 65–66; on status of slave in Roman antiquity, 70–72; on thanatopolitics and person, 72–73. See also impolitical and impersonal Fallaci, Oriana, 109 Fearless Speech (Foucault), 131, 135, 137, 140 Foster, Hal, 7, 189n63 Foucault, Michel: and aesthetics of bíos, 137; “care of the self” and, 80, 127–33, 178n43; circulation and, 122–24; concept of milieu of, 111–12, 120–26, 129; concept of population of, 111–13, 120–22, 174n3, 175n9, 177n24; and the Cynics, 132; ethics, aesthetics and, 178n49; ethics, modernity and, 178–79n54; on freedom, 123–26, 131–32, 136; on liberty, 80–81; ontology of actuality and, 128, 169n130; social coverage and, 46; Socialism and...