Boano, C., Leclair-Paquet, B.
Potential, freedom and space: Reflections on Agamben’s potentialities in the West Bank
(2014) Space and Polity, Published online Feb 2014
Abstract
A special kind of infrastructure has emerged around the West Bank, which lays bare Israel’s capacity to spatialise its colonial power and to constantly solidify its presence. Reading these spatial devices through Agamben’s work, this paper proposes a reflective attempt to read this site of contemporary occupation through a “resistant” lens as a novel take on Agamben’s spatial topology and political aesthetics. The paper offers preliminary remarks on the search for alternative theoretical construction of Agamben “potentialities”. The paper allow speculations on the heterotopian nature of Israeli produced infrastructures, perceived at once as actualised potentials in space, and spaces of potential.
Author Keywords
Agamben; conflicted spaces; Foucault; heterotopian infrastructures; Israel; potentiality; West Bank
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