Forvaltningen af det bestående:
Guvernementalitet, regering og økonomi hos Giorgio Agamben
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.7146/sl.v2015i72.107199Keywords:
Agamben, Foucault, Governmentality, administration, economyAbstract
The article investigates Giorgio Agamben’s turn to, and radicalization of, Foucault’s concept of governmentality, which Agamben argues constitutes a ’decisive point’ in the Homo sacer-series. The article shows that in the investigation of the Trinitarian oikonomia, Agamben finds the point of intersection between the ‘totalizing procedures’ of the state and ‘individualizing techniques’ of biopolitics thereby disclosing the ‘zone of indistinction’ between sovereignty and government and politics and economy, which constitutes power in the West. Furthermore, the article argues that Agamben shows how the economy is not something distinct from politics, encroaching on its logic, but rather how the governmental paradigm of the West constitutes the continual administration of the given, the continual and perpetual government of the economy and thereby of the existing economic and political power-relations.
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Agamben, G. (2009 [2005]). Undtagelsestilstand. Århus: Philosophia.
Agamben, G. (2010 [2006]). Hvad er et dispositiv? I Hvad er et dispositiv? – og to andre essays. Aarhus: Slagmark, 9-25.
Agamben, G. (2011 [2007]). The Kingdom and the Glory. For a Theological Genealogy of Economy and Government (Homo Sacer II,2). Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Agamben, G. (2013 [2012]). Opus Dei. An Archeology of Duty. Stanford: Stanford University Press.
Aristoteles (1992 [c. 335-323 fvt.]). The Politics (ovs. T.A. Sinclair). London & New York: Penguin Classics.
Bourdieu, P. (2004 [1994]). I statens ånd. Det bureaukratiske felts opkomst og struktur. I Af praktiske grunde. Omkring teorien om menneskelig handlen, København: Hans Reitzels Forlag, 97-133.
Bussolini, J. (2010). What is a Dispositive? Foucault Studies,10, Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben, 85-107.
Dean, M. (2012). Governmentality Meets Theology: ‘The King Reigns, but He does Not Govern’. Theory, Culture & Society, 29(3), 145-158.
Dean, M. (2013). The Signature of Power. Sovereignty, Governmentality and Biopolitics. London: Sage.
Foucault, M. (1982). The Subject and Power. Critical Inquiry, 8(4), 777-795.
Foucault, M. (2004 [1997]. Society must be defended. Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975-76. London: Penguin Books.
Foucault, M. (2008 [2004]). Sikkerhed, territorium, befolkning. Forelæsninger på Collège de France 1977-78. København: Hans Reitzels Forlag.
Foucault, M. (2009 [2004]). Biopolitikkens fødsel. Forelæsninger på Collège de France 1978-79. København: Hans Reitzels Forlag.
Foucault, M. (2011 [1976]). Viljen til viden. Seksualitetens historie 1. København: Det lille Forlag.
Hobbes, T. (2008 [1651]). Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a COMMON-WEALTH Ecclesiasticall and Civill, (red. Richard Tuck). Cambridge & New York: Cambridge University Press.
Jessen, M. H. & von Eggers, N. (2013). Kongen hersker, men regerer ikke. Guvernementalitet, statificering og statspraksis hos Foucault. Slagmark – Tidsskrift for idéhistorie, 66, Michel Foucault, 89-107.
Jessen, M. H. (2013). De retslige, administrative og normative dispositivers autonomi – Interview med Paolo Napoli. Slagmark – Tidsskrift for idéhistorie, 66, Michel Foucault, 109-124.
Kantorowicz, E. H. (1997 [1957]). The King’s Two Bodies. A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Lemke, T. (2007). An indigestible meal? Foucault, governmentality and state theory. I Distinktion – Scandinavian Journal of Social Theory, 15, 43-64.
Meiksins Wood, E. (1981). The Separation of the Economic and the Political in Capitalism. New Left Review, 127, 66-94.
Mitchell, T. (1991). The Limits of the State: Beyond Statist Approaches and Their Critics. The American Political Science Review, 85(1), 77-96.
Saar, M. (2013 [2011]). At genplacere den moderne stat – Guvernementalitet og de politiske idéers historie. Slagmark, 66, Michel Foucault, 59-86.
Schmitt, C. (2009 [1922]). Politische Theologie. Vier Kapitel zur Lehre von der Souveränität, Berlin: Duncker & Humblot.
Snoek, A. (2010). Agamben’s Foucault: An overview. Foucault Studies, 10, Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben, 44-67.
Ugilt, R. (2014). Giorgio Agamben: Political Philosophy. Tirril Hall: Humanities-Ebooks, LLP.
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2015-08-15
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Jessen, M. H. (2015). Forvaltningen af det bestående:: Guvernementalitet, regering og økonomi hos Giorgio Agamben. Slagmark - Tidsskrift for idéhistorie, 2015(72), 17–35. https://doi.org/10.7146/sl.v2015i72.107199
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