Sovereign Excess, Legitimacy and Resistance eBook

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When talking about his film Salò, Pasolini claimed that nothing is more anarchic than power, because power does whatever it wants, and what power wants is totally arbitrary. And yet, upon examining the murderous capital of modern sovereignty, the fragility emerges of a power whose existence depends on its victims’ recognition. Like a prayer from God, the command implores to be loved, also by those whom it puts to death. Benefitting from this “political theurgy” as the book calls it (the idea that a power, like God, claiming to be full of glory, constantly needs to be glorified) is Barnardine, the Bohemian murderer in Shakespeare’s Measure for Measure, as he, called upon by power to the gallows, answers with a curse: ‘a pox o’ your throats’. He does not want to die, nor, indeed, will he. And so, he becomes sovereign. On a level with and against the State.

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9780429507380, 9780367665128

Sovereign Excess, Legitimacy and Resistance 1st Edition is written by Francescomaria Tedesco and published by Routledge. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for Sovereign Excess, Legitimacy and Resistance are 9780429017155, 0429017154 and the print ISBNs are 9781138549852, 1138549851. Additional ISBNs for this eTextbook include 9780429507380, 9780367665128.