“Bare life” derives from Giorgio Agamben’s concept of homo sacer (1998): a permanent, yet invisible space of maximal political power. Here persons legally reduced to the status of mere life can be ...
Agamben, Giorgio. (translated by Daniel Heller-Roazen) (1998). Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life. Stanford, California: Stanford University Press. Graham, Aubrey. (2014). “One Hundred Years od ...