‘Merely Circulating’: The Movement of Persons and the Politics of Abandonment

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Notes

¹ The circumstances of Jimmy Mubenga's death have been widely reported on the internet. See < http://www.indymedia.org.uk/en/2010/10/466597.html> (29/10/10) or Jerome Phelps, ‘The Lonely Death of Jimmy Mubenga’, < http://www.indcatholicnews.com/news.php?viewStory = 17002>(29/10/10).

² Habeas Corpus Act 1679 < http://www.constitution.org/eng/habcorpa.htm>(22/02/11).

³ Hannah Arendt, The Origins of Totalitarianism [1951] (London: George Allen and Unwin Ltd, 1967), p.277.

⁴ Hannah Arendt, Origins, p.261.

⁵ Hannah Arendt, Origins, p.299.

⁶ Hannah Arendt, Origins, p.279.

⁷ Alain Badiou, The Meaning of Sarkozy, Trans. David Fernbach (London: Verso, 2008), p.19.

⁸ Alain Badiou, Sarkozy, p.43.

⁹ Alain Badiou, Being and Event, Trans. Oliver Feltham [1988] (London: Continuum 2006), p.107.

¹⁰ Alain Badiou, Manifesto for Philosophy, Trans. Norman Madarasz [1989] (Albany, NY: State University of New York Press, 1999), p.38.

¹¹ Alain Badiou, Manifesto, p.81.

¹² Alain Badiou, St. Paul: The Foundation of Universalism, Trans. Ray Brassier [1997] (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 2003), p.5.

¹³ Alain Badiou, St. Paul, p.9.

¹⁴ Alain Badiou, St. Paul, p.17.

¹⁵ Alain Badiou, St. Paul, p.49.

¹⁶ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays and Lectures (New York: The Library of America, 1983), p.10.

¹⁷ Alain Badiou, St. Paul, pp.1–2.

¹⁸ Timothy Clark, The Theory of Inspiration: Composition as a Crisis of Subjectivity in Romantic and Post-Romantic Writing (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 1997), p.177.

¹⁹ See David Herd, Enthusiast! Essays on Modern American Literature (Manchester: Manchester University Press), pp.1–26.

²⁰ See ‘Transcendentalism’ in Emerson, Essays and Lectures, pp.1198–9.

²¹ Jean Luc Nancy, cited in Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power and Bare Life (Stanford: Stanford University Press, 1998), p.58.

²² Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer, p.29.

²³ Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer, p.150.

²⁴ Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer, p.29.

²⁵ Stanley Cavell, The Senses of Walden (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1992), p.95.

²⁶ Stanley Cavell, Senses, p.136.

²⁷ Alain Badiou, Being and Event, p.107.

²⁸ Alain Badiou, Manifesto, p.55.

²⁹ Alain Badiou, St. Paul, p.10.

³⁰ Alain Badiou, Being and Event, p.109.

³¹ Giorgio Agamben, Homo Sacer, p.111.

³² Alain Badiou, The Meaning of Sarkozy, p.19.

³³ Alain Badiou, The Meaning of Sarkozy, p. 40.

³⁴ There are various organisations that work with people in immigration removal centres. The organisation that works with people at the DIRC is Kent Refugee Help: [email protected]