A reader has drawn my attention to a short piece by Eric Santner (whose interesting work I have mentioned before) in which he reflects, in an Agambenesque way, on the Terri Schiavo case and Abu Ghraib.
'In the one case we have human life violently stripped of the cover of a symbolic status/value, in the other, the intrusive imposition a symbolic status/value in the absence of sentient life. The results, however, are uncannily similar: the radical exposure of the body to the pure caprice of political power'.
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