Giorgio Agamben. The State of Exception. Der Ausnahmezustand. 2003 5/7

http://www.egs.edu/ Italian Philosopher Giorgio Agamben lecturing at European Graduate School and discussing the concept of the State of Exception, terminology as the poetic moment of philosophy, definitions, terms, Plato, ideas, Spinoza, mode, choice of terminology, the Ausnahmezustand, martial law, a phenomenon, point of imbalance between public law and politics, an ambiguous zone, located at the border of the juridical and the political, siege, war, perception, images, suspension of order and law, public law, theory, sovereignty, Karl Schmitt. Free, public, open philosophy and politics lecture for the students of the European Graduate School EGS, Media and Communication Studies department program, Saas-Fee, Switzerland, Europe, 2003.