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Sovereign Excess, Legitimacy and Resistance

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When talking about his film Salò, Pasolini claimed that nothing is more anarchic than power, because power does whatever it wants, and what power wants is arbitrary. Upon examining the murderous capital of modern sovereignty, the fragility emerges of a power whose existence depends on its victims' recognition.


List of contents

Preface

1. "Tell the bastards nothing!". The ideology of the scaffold

2. Fault lines

3. That sovereign, a true Machiavellian

4. Machiavelli and Shakespeare

5. Sovereign excess. Death penalty and recognition

6. Hinneni

7. Tu es/Tuer

8. I will not consent to die

9. Conclusion

About the author

Francescomaria Tedesco is assistant professor at the University of Camerino (Italy), where he teaches Political Philosophy.

Summary

When talking about his film Salò, Pasolini claimed that nothing is more anarchic than power, because power does whatever it wants, and what power wants is arbitrary. Upon examining the murderous capital of modern sovereignty, the fragility emerges of a power whose existence depends on its victims’ recognition.

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