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- Title
SALÓ: POLİTİK BİR AYGIT OLARAK İŞKENCE.
- Authors
TAŞKALE, Ali Rıza
- Abstract
Focusing on Pier Paolo Pasolini’s final film, Saló, this article discusses torture as an apparatus of domination, as the most privileged actualisation of state terror. Based on Agamben’s conceptualisation of the state of exception, it argues that, on the one hand sovereign political power turns the state of exception into the rule; on the other it aims to justify repressive apparatuses such as torture. In this sense sovereignty is not only about states of exception. The article therefore discusses torture and the state of exception as inseparable elements of the ‘liberal way of war’. Torture reveals the nature of sovereignty and its rational consciousness. At issue here is a kind of torture that is political, a constitutive act of state terror, which aims to decrease the body’s revolting capacity.
- Publication
Felsefe ve Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi (FLSF), 2016, Issue 21, p17
- ISSN
1306-9535
- Publication type
Article