1. Agamben
and
Transna-onal
American
Studies
American
Studies
Associa0on
2010,
San
Antonio,
TX
Nirmal
H.
Trivedi
Georgia
Ins0tute
of
Technology
Agamben
and
Transna0onal
American
Studies
Nirmal
Trivedi,
PhD
American
Studies
Associa0on
San
Antonio,
TX

2. Agamben
and
Transna-onal
American
Studies
American
Studies
Associa0on
2010,
San
Antonio,
TX
Nirmal
H.
Trivedi
Georgia
Ins0tute
of
Technology
State of Exception. 2005.
Homo Sacer. 1998.

3. Agamben
and
Transna-onal
American
Studies
American
Studies
Associa0on
2010,
San
Antonio,
TX
Nirmal
H.
Trivedi
Georgia
Ins0tute
of
Technology
“The
excep0on
is
a
kind
of
exclusion.
What
is
excluded
from
the
general
rule
is
an
individual
case.
But
the
most
proper
characteris0c
of
the
excep0on
is
that
what
is
excluded
in
it
is
not,
on
account
of
being
excluded,
absolutely
without
rela0on
to
the
rule.
On
the
contrary,
what
is
excluded
in
the
excep0on
maintains
itself
in
rela0on
to
the
rule
in
the
form
of
the
rule's
suspension.
The
rule
applies
to
the
excep0on
in
no
longer
applying,
in
withdrawing
from
it.
The
state
of
excep0on
is
thus
not
the
chaos
that
precedes
order
but
rather
the
situa0on
that
results
from
its
suspension.”
-­‐-­‐Agamben,
Homo
Sacer
State
of
Excep-on

4. Agamben
and
Transna-onal
American
Studies
American
Studies
Associa0on
2010,
San
Antonio,
TX
Nirmal
H.
Trivedi
Georgia
Ins0tute
of
Technology
“The
cold
war
state
aLenuated
the
reach
of
the
subject's
responsibility
to
loyalty
to
the
state,
and
it
demanded
that
other
na0ons
be
construed
as
either
friends
or
enemies
of
the
state.
But
aNer
the
state
declared
itself
in
a
permanent
cold
war,
the
Other
to
the
na0on
was
doubled
as
well—into
the
Enemy
of
the
State
and
the
emergency
powers
that
the
state
itself
must
exercise
to
defend
the
people
against
the
threat.
”
-­‐-­‐Pease,
The
New
American
Excep4onalism
State
of
Excep-on
-­‐
Pease

5. Agamben
and
Transna-onal
American
Studies
American
Studies
Associa0on
2010,
San
Antonio,
TX
Nirmal
H.
Trivedi
Georgia
Ins0tute
of
Technology
“Whilst
in
an
interna0onal
sense
Porto
[sic]
Rico
was
not
a
foreign
country
since
it
was
subject
to
the
sovereignty
of
and
was
owned
by
the
United
States,
it
was
foreign
to
the
United
States
in
a
domes0c
sense
because
the
island
had
not
been
incorporated….”
-­‐-­‐Downes
v.
Bidwell
(1901)
State
of
Excep-on
-­‐
Kaplan

6. Agamben
and
Transna-onal
American
Studies
American
Studies
Associa0on
2010,
San
Antonio,
TX
Nirmal
H.
Trivedi
Georgia
Ins0tute
of
Technology
Cherokee
Na-on
v.
State
of
Georgia
(1831)
“Do
the
Cherokees
cons4tute
a
foreign
state
in
the
sense
of
the
Cons4tu4on?”

7. Agamben
and
Transna-onal
American
Studies
American
Studies
Associa0on
2010,
San
Antonio,
TX
Nirmal
H.
Trivedi
Georgia
Ins0tute
of
Technology
Zone
of
Indis-nc-on

8. Agamben
and
Transna-onal
American
Studies
American
Studies
Associa0on
2010,
San
Antonio,
TX
Nirmal
H.
Trivedi
Georgia
Ins0tute
of
Technology
“Homo
Sacer”
“What
is
new
about
President
Bush's
order
is
that
it
radically
erases
any
legal
status
of
the
individual,
thus
producing
a
legally
unnamable
and
unclassifiable
being.
Not
only
do
the
Taliban
captured
in
Afghanistan
not
enjoy
the
status
of
POWs
as
defined
by
the
Geneva
Conven0on,
they
do
not
even
have
the
status
of
persons
charged
with
a
crime
according
to
American
laws.”
-­‐-­‐
Agamben,
State
of
Excep4on

9. Agamben
and
Transna-onal
American
Studies
American
Studies
Associa0on
2010,
San
Antonio,
TX
Nirmal
H.
Trivedi
Georgia
Ins0tute
of
Technology
Ong,
Aihwa.
Neoliberalism
as
Excep4on:
Muta4ons
in
Ci4zenship
and
Sovereignty.
2006.
Zones

10. Agamben
and
Transna-onal
American
Studies
American
Studies
Associa0on
2010,
San
Antonio,
TX
Nirmal
H.
Trivedi
Georgia
Ins0tute
of
Technology
Ques-ons
• Consequences
of
refocusing
our
study
of
transna0onalism
to
ques0ons
of
sovereignty
rather
than
na0onalism?
• What
is
a
transna0onal
subject?