ABSTRACT
As we have explored in almost all the chapters of this book, and present in all the idée-force presented, Agamben is calling for the neutralization and deactivation of a number of apparatuses that govern and determine human action and status, whether constituted by law, space, anthropogenesis, language and even time. All of them are machines for separations, dispositives (as elaborated at length in Chapter 8), for
creating separations and articulations between life and the structural forms in which that life is lived, between life and the forms imposed on that life. In the most general sense, this division is the function of what Agamben calls biopolitics, that is, the fundamental separation/ articulation of zoē and bios; and the act of separating these two … is the action of sovereignty.
