ABSTRACT
Giorgio Agamben’s reflections are political, provocative and language oriented. His
production has been highly influential, mainly through his popular Homo Sacer project,1
where the notion of ‘exception’ and ‘the camp’ suggest the basis for the constitution of
extreme spatial organization in the modern metropolis. Never speaking directly about
architecture and urbanism, Agamben alludes to the contemporary landscape by saying
that advanced capitalism produces a great accumulation of dispositifs, of heterogeneous
sets of elements (discourses, regulations, institutions, architectures), and that today ‘there
are only oikonomie – pure governance, which has the sole purpose of reproducing itself’.2
