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A study on Agamben’s political concepts of registration and camp

  • PHILOSOPHY·THOUGHT·CULTURE
  • 2023, (41), pp.1~21
  • DOI : 10.33639/ptc.2023..41.001
  • Publisher : Research Institute for East-West Thought
  • Research Area : Humanities > Other Humanities
  • Received : December 20, 2022
  • Accepted : January 31, 2023
  • Published : January 31, 2023

Jihye Kim 1

1홍익대학교

Accredited

ABSTRACT

The purpose of this article is to analyze the concepts of registration and camps among the various political theories that Giorgio Agamben dealt with in his Homo Sacer series and to trace these concepts contemporarily. Agamben defines it as follows, which means that language and legal norms themselves are insubstantial, so they operate based on legal fictions. He also argues that registration has been an important indicator of distinguishing those who deserve the protection of the law from those who should be deported outside the law. And those who should be expelled, determined through this process of distinction, had to live and die in the form of non-humans in the zone of indistinction where the law stopped working. However, Agamben also makes this prophecy, saying that when those in this situation voluntarily build a non-identification area, that is, a state of exception, they can become the subject of new politics. Therefore, this article first analyzes the modern concept of registration and concentration camps, introduces cases in which it is being implemented in reality, and then seeks the possibility to move in a new direction.

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