Mobility and the Camp

Today it is not the city but rather the camp that is the fundamental biopolitical paradigm of the West (Agamben 1998, 181). The camp, Agamben’s central concept of spatiality, can only be dened in relation, or rather as “nonrelation,” to the “city,” a space opened up by a clear demarcation, a dierentiation between what is inside and outside, between civilization and barbarism.