Discipline and Punish Again?

..., where an individual is deprived of all rights except the right to biological existence ("bare life"): concentration camps, prisons, immigration detention centres, customs, etc. G. Agamben, therefore, managed to demonstrate that sovereign power can expand through the narrowing of the sphere of individual sovereignty, even bringing the subjectivity of an individual to the biological existence. Although we would like to hope that such phenomena as concentration camps remained in the past, the practices of preventive custody or indefinite detention without ...