state of emergency

trivia

is an escape from every legal consideration. It is still a state represented by order (rather than chaos or anarchy) but it is not a legal order.

Schmitt knows perfectly well that the state of emergency, in as far as it enacts a 'suspension of the legal order in its totality,' seems to 'escape every legal consideration'... but for him the issue is to ensure a relation, no matter of what type, between the state of emergency and the legal order: 'The state of emergency is always distinguished from anarchy and chaos and, in the legal sense, there is still order in it, even though it is not a legal order.' (Agamben lecture NET).

is not an exceptional moment in political life (as opposed to some stable normalcy) but is increasingly the predominant form of the life of modern nations.

crisis and state of emergency as not exceptional moments in political life opposed to some stable normalcy, but themselves the predominant form of the life of modern nations. . . emergency powers and so on have increasingly become the normal operation of the state.' (Agamben lecture NET).

is situated at an ambiguous and uncertain fringe at the intersection of the legal and the political and constitutes a point of disequilibrium between public law and political fact.

the state of emergency would be situated at an 'ambiguous and uncertain fringe at the intersection of the legal and the political,' and would constitute a 'point of disequilibrium between public law and political fact.' (Agamben lecture NET)

is the suspension of the legal order in its totality as an immediate response to unforeseen events imposed in order to return things to a state normalcy.

suspension of the legal order in its totality,'. immediate responses to unforseen events to return things to a state normalcy.

is, today, not the exception but the rule.

The tradition of the oppressed teaches us that the state of emergency" in which we live is not the exception but the rule.

state of emergency, n.All

state of emergency