You are the best. Please don't ever stop making these intellectually enriching videos that are benefitting thousands of interested scholars all throughout the world.

I love it when someone breaks down a "complex" term, concept or idea and by the end of the video you actually feel like you understood something. Thank you

Dear David, I'm starting with the PhD studies in philosophy and your comment on "Homo sacer" was really helpful. Thank you very much. Greetings from Croatia. Ante

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FYI - Derrida deconstructs Agamben's concept toward the end of The Beast and the Sovereign vol. 1.

Your explanation is much better than the one Routledge Critical thinkers series gave. Keep up the good work.

You do a great job introducing or briefing these kinds of books. I'd like to suggest you add links to the other videos/explanations you mention throughout your video, so we don't have to look for them : ). Thanks!

This reminds me of the way we treat non-human animals, beings reduced to alive beings of little to no value other than biological phenomena wherein their value is measured in the pleasure we can then derive from their flesh. We are told that we need to eat them, and yet only certain ones are worth having in our own home. Of course, we now no longer need them strictly speaking, and what's worse is we believe we are a society that loves animals. I am vegan btw 🌱

Well this was weirdly perfect timing for me.....great job! Fantastic and clear explanation-one I’ll be drawing on soon. Cheers 🍻

Wow! Thank you so much for the explanation! It was really helpful! I just subscribed and I will be watching more of your videos!

I can't help but view slavery in America through the lens of this new term. Regarded as only property to the sovereign, and replaceable instruments in the capitalistically influenced institution. Recently I've started to think critically while listening to your podcasts, it pushes me out of my comfort zone and encourages me to really analyze and internalize how the topics you communicate relate to our history and our present times.. It's much easier than actually reading theory lol. Thanks for the upload. Interesting as always.

every possible thing i would want to read, david has explained it! feeling #blessed

Thank you for directing me here from your biopolitics video! I'm looking at Homo Sacer in particular for my presentation so this helped me heaps! I really appreciate how you break things down to simple terms as I'm not always sure that I interpret philosophical readings right :)

Recently bought "Homo Sacer" and started reading it this evening, I must say your video was really helpful.

thank you for your channel, you make it so accessible and I have learnt so much

Covering Agamben in a seminar today at a literature conference. I presented on Jean-Luc Nancy yesterday. Really appreciate this bare bones explanation and especially your criticisms and the way it works with/against Foucalt's biopolitics

Thank you so much! Such a simplified and clear explanation.

Thank you. This was excellent. I found Agamben almost impenetrable to read - your summary was very clear.

Thank you for this explanation. Makes reading a lot easier.

Amazing explanation! Thank you so much :)

This is off topic but you should do some videos on Georges Batailles work

I’m in the process of reading a text called Habeas Viscus by Alexander G. Weheliye and he mentions this term and Agamben a few times. Made a note to do a little more research on it so I’m glad you made this!

Thank you for providing a clear explanation of Agamben's complex concepts. I now have a clearer understanding of the relevance to sacred sovereignty and the Holocaust.

thank you for helping me understand biopolitics! your videos are even more clear than my 2 hours lecture! good for preview or review! undergrad year 4 student saying thanks!

Thank you for the explanation!

thank you! philosophical reads are too hard for me to comprehend, just entangle in words lol keep making it accessible for the ones like me❤

Thank you so much. Deeply Appreciated !

enjoy your explanation always❤

thanks for sharing this, i need to understand this homo sacer for my lecture

Has there been an recent comment from Agamben? I’d love to hear what he thinks of the state of things now….

Can you please do a video on border studies.

I think the value of Agamben's theory is that he uses this concept of bare life to warn us that we must reject the division of the definition of life by sovereign states. This division between life with political quality and a simply biological life (e.g citizenship v.s statelessness) leads to a dangerous consequence and anyone can face this degradation or, in Agamben's words, become a bare life that can be killed with impunity.

This was just amazing tj learn... Everything was so crystal clear to hear..I just have one question, i will be grateful for your response ... Q: how is it related to post modernism?

So to break it down into like a really small piece: it's about how the reduction of some groups into "bare life" (home sacer) plays a big role in granting sovereignty or securing sovereignty of others?

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Starts here: 1:07 or here: 1:22 or eventually here: 1:45

As a staunch republican writing my doctorate on the numinosity of the evangelistic texts of the much misinterpreted Jerry Falwell, I have found the Agamben's concept of Homo Sacer, like that of the poetics of inoperability central to my analysis and I thank you for your continued guidance.

So helpful for my thesis on migrant females in Mexico. Thank you so much!

This book is about to become immensely relevant thanks to cvid clampdowns

I'm not totally unfamiliar with the term Homo Sacer but I never understood which particular people could be termed Homo Sacer. I'm glad that you gave the example of the people who died in the holocaust, but I'm struggling to come up with more examples. Are enslaved people Homo Sacer or do they still have 'value' in that they do work for their master? Is a homeless person a Homo Sacer? I'm not quite sure and it would be great if you could help me out here. Anyway, love your videos, they're very enlightening for someone who never studied philosophy!

I think the way Agamben builds up his approach towards biopolitics explains more about identity politics then the Holocaust.

This is interesting. I have never been exposed to this idea before. In the United States this applies in many ways. It applies to most citizens and noncitizens in different aspects and in different categories. It actually tries to reduces everyone except a few to a nothing. For example, in 2008, I had my nest egg stolen when my house was foreclosed upon. The banks foreclosed upon my home AND got bailed out. It was a double win for them. The banks and Hedgefunds owned the executive, legislative and possibly the Supreme Court. This reduced me to a nothing. But this reduction to nothing also has existed here in many forms. Blacks, (Native) Americans , Immigrants, Women, and even children to a form of nothing.

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morgoths review writes a great article about this on his website.

The -ce in the latin word sacer sounds like the first part of the english word chess. Just for the sake of the big work you do for all of us! Thanks, Luca

Is there any thinker who picks up on this concept of naked life and tries to think other consequences that are not political? I ask this because it seems this concept can have various ontological/ethical developments.

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"its a life and life only" - Dylan

This gives strong Orlando Patterson “social death” vibes

Is H.S Agamben's bare life too?

great explanation! How can this related to racism in our modern times?

Hi, What do you think about enslaved blacks?

It would be interesting to hear you revisit this philosopher post-pandemic. From what i understand he fell out of the good graces of "The Left" because he didn't support lockdowns and mandates

Your critique of Agamben being too quick to prioritise the acclaimed teleological nature of the sovereign in bare life, over the historical reality of the persecution of the Jewish peoples, is very apt - what about other group of peoples that were targeted during nazism? Namely, Roma, Sinti, disabled, Religious groups, different nationals (poles, russians) etc. How might these groups fit in to that theoretical gap you identify?

Regarding the exceptionality of the Holocaust, I would recommend to whoever is interested, to read the works of Enzo Traverso!

There must be some meaning behind the juxtaposition of the profane fleshy ‘homo’ and the deified ‘sacer’. Such a combo cannot really exist (outside a special religious framework)and so it is easy to see it in a satirical, deprecating, ironic light.

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your criticism is really not a criticism tbh. it's kind of just like a neo-liberal expectation that we revere past horrible deeds to an arbitrarily satisfactory degree. the history of anti-semitism can be seen as continuations of the homo sacer towards jews, propagated by culture exchange. idk maybe i'm wrong

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If you believe biopolitics, I recommend studying Afro-Pessimism

Sovereign power, Israel, Gaza!