From: ".: s0metim3s :." <s0metim3s-AT-optusnet.com.au>
Subject: AUT: RE: More on Fascism (and Flows) (Agamben - Benjamin - Schmitt) (Deleuze& Guattari )
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2004 17:10:01 +1000




: Having related that back to the
: previous discussion: I think I tend
: towards Anthony's reading of Schmidtt:
: i.e. via Agamben and Benjamin -
: that it is a critique a response to
: Schmiddt rather than a taking or
: adopton of  a part of fascist theory .
: Martin


>From Brett Neilson's precis of Agamben's _State of
Exception_: "Agamben reads the debate on the state
of emergency that pitted Carl Schmitt against
Walter Benjamin from 1928 to 1940. Schmitt's
influence on Benjamin has always appeared
scandalous, but Agamben attempts to reverse this
scandal, suggesting that Schmitt's theory of
sovereignty must be read as response to Benjamin's
'Critique of Violence.' "

I guess that mean that Schmitt might well be read
via Benjamin ...

Seems more than plausible to me; much more
plausible than the attempts to collapse every
reference to Schmitt as a nod to fascism.  What's
at stake in that manoeuvre seems fairly obvious
(slander takes the place of argument):  Which is
to say, I'd be interested (irrespective of who one
cites as the textual authority) in any persuasive
argument as to whether the state of exception is
indeed an exception (or, rather, an anomaly).

Angela
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