Abstract
ABSTRACT In Homo Sacer, Giorgio Agamben argues that the foundational dichotomy of politics is to be found in the separation of an ‘inside’ from an ‘outside.’ It is our contention that homo sacer is a useful tool for assessing the sacrificial quality of life under unequal social systems. Specifically, we argue that in the United States, impoverished Black residents of, above all, but not only American ‘ghettos’ can potentially be understood as homo sacer. However, we also show that Agamben’s conceptualization faces some significant barriers to sociological implementation. We, therefore, update homo sacer using a Deleuzian framework focused on the concepts of assemblage and identitarian articulations.
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