Giorgio Agamben

The fundamental categorial pair of Western politics is not that of friend/enemy but that of bare life/political existence, zoē/bios.

The camp is the space that is opened when the state of exception begins to become the rule.

The paradox of sovereignty consists in the fact the sovereign is, at the same time, outside and inside the juridical order.

Homo sacer is he who can be killed and yet not sacrificed.

The relation of exception is a relation of ban.

The originary structure of the state of exception is not the fullness of power but its void.

The production of a biopolitical body is the original activity of sovereign power.

The camp is the new biopolitical nomos of the planet.

The state of exception is not a special kind of law (like the law of war); rather, it is a suspension of the juridical order itself.

It is not the city but rather the camp that is the fundamental biopolitical paradigm of the West.

A being radically devoid of any representable identity is simply a being that is exposed to death.

The inclusion of bare life in the political realm constitutes the original—if concealed—nucleus of sovereign power.