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  • The removal of the latter extinguishes the former: it is no accident, he says in Homo Sacer, that Jews under the Third Reich were formally stripped of their citizenship before being consigned to the camps.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • What we saw here was the joint appearance of the Sovereign and the exile, a trope explored at length in Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life.

    Archive 2009-06-01 2009

  • What we saw here was the joint appearance of the Sovereign and the exile, a trope explored at length in Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life.

    Abdelrazik: a defeat of sovereign power 2009

  • “Sukúr,” whence our “Saker” the falcon, not to be confounded with the old Falco Sacer, the Gr..

    The Book of The Thousand Nights And A Night 2006

  • Commons of Rome to the Mons Sacer, a more spirited exertion has not been made.

    Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides 2006

  • Inspired by Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, this essay raises the question whether lesbians and gay men should fundamentally rethink their relationship with the law.

    Infanti on Homo Sacer, Homosexual: Some Thoughts on Waging Tax Guerrilla Warfare 2006

  • Inspired by Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, this essay raises the question whether lesbians and gay men should fundamentally rethink their relationship with the law.

    March 2006 2006

  • Sacer mons, apud monasterium eiusdem nominis, nulla sui parts tempore 鎠tiuo nimbus obductus, nec montis excelsi, sed potius collis humilis nomen meretur, nunquam, vt initio huius sectionis dixi, de incendio suspectus.

    The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003

  • Sacer mons, apud monasterium eiusdem nominis, nulla sui parts tempore æstiuo nimbus obductus, nec montis excelsi, sed potius collis humilis nomen meretur, nunquam, vt initio huius sectionis dixi, de incendio suspectus.

    A briefe commentarie of Island, by Arngrimus Ionas 2003

  • Because of the incident of Virginia the Roman Pleb was led armed to the sacred mountain [Mons Sacer].

    Discourses 2003

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