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Notes
1. Franz Kafka, “In the Penal Colony,” Best Short Stories, ed. and trans. Stanley Appelbaum (Mineola, NY: Dover Publications), 125.
2. Karen W. Arenson, “In Protest, Professor Cancels Visit to the US,” The New York Times, Late Edition, January 17, 2004, sec. B.
3. Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life, trans. Daniel Heller-Roazen (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 1998), 25.
4. Giorgio Agamben, State of Exception, trans. Kevin Attell (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2005), 2.
5. Agamben, State of Exception, 23.
6. Carl Schmitt, Political Theology, trans. George Schwab (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1985), 10.
7. Rey Chow, “Sacrifice, Mimesis, and the Theorizing of Victimhood,” Representations 94 (spring 2006): 133.
8. Michel Foucault, “Society Must Be Defended”: Lectures at the Collège de France, 1975–1976, trans. David Macey (New York: Picador, 2003), 241.
9. Agamben, Homo Sacer, 21.
10. I thank Babak Bakhtiarynia for this insight.
11. See, for instance, Andrew Norris (ed.), Politics, Metaphysics, and Death: Essays on Giorgio Agamben's Homo Sacer (Durham, NC: Duke University Press, 2005); and my essay, “Thanatopolitics: On the Use of Death for Mobilizing Political Life,” Polygraph 18 (2006): 191–215.
12. Agamben, Homo Sacer, 2.
13. Aristotle, Aristotle's Politics, trans. W.D. Ross (Oxford: Clarendon Press, 1957), 1252b29–30.
14. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, trans. W.D. Ross (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1925), 1100a.
15. Aristotle, Nicomachean Ethics, 1101a22–24. Also see Kurt Pritzl, “Aristotle and Happiness After Death: Nicomachean Ethics 1.10–11,” Classical Philology, vol. 78, issue 2 (April 1983): 101–11.
16. Giorgio Agamben, The Coming Community, trans. Michael Hardt (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1993), 86.