Desnudez: Agamben y la vida

Abstract

Taking a cue from a reading of Agamben’s essay “Nudity” (2009), the text analyses the most famous concept of his vocabulary, “bare” or “naked life,” and attempts to understand the meaning of life’s “nakedness” within the whole project begun with Homo Sacer. By attempting to disclose and deactivate the theological signature that determines, in our culture, the concept of “nudity” in exclusively privative terms, “Nudity” provides both an instrument for the analysis of life’s nudity in the sovereign ban and the model for a philosophical practice structured on a “denudation” of the signatures and apparatuses which determine and imprison our life.