Agambon's Political Response to the Bush Administration

The political culture of the west does not realize that it has entirely lost its canon. By this, he meant the substitution of a paradime of emergency government for the traditions of liberal democracythat had grown up over the previous 200 years. It's worth noting here also that agambon had very particular kind of histrionic political responses. And how far those politics are connected to his theory is something we'll hopefully talk about in a bit more detail.