This statement most immediately brings us imagine vestiges of the Auschwitz camps seeping through and into remote corners of our urban landscape. Like a kind of lurking memory that won't go away. But I think Agamben is suggesting that the camps are more foundational to the 21st century city. So I thought, perhaps it would be more appropriate to imagine elements from today surfacing inside the camps of 1943.
Friday, May 18, 2007
...securely lodged within the city's interior...
The camp, which is now securely lodged within the city’s interior, is the new political norm of life on this planet. Giorgio Agamben, "Homo Sacer".
This statement most immediately brings us imagine vestiges of the Auschwitz camps seeping through and into remote corners of our urban landscape. Like a kind of lurking memory that won't go away. But I think Agamben is suggesting that the camps are more foundational to the 21st century city. So I thought, perhaps it would be more appropriate to imagine elements from today surfacing inside the camps of 1943.
This statement most immediately brings us imagine vestiges of the Auschwitz camps seeping through and into remote corners of our urban landscape. Like a kind of lurking memory that won't go away. But I think Agamben is suggesting that the camps are more foundational to the 21st century city. So I thought, perhaps it would be more appropriate to imagine elements from today surfacing inside the camps of 1943.
