Screening Queens 2

15 Março 2019, 10:00 • Ângela Fernandes

Lecture and discussion on the concept(s) of sovereignty in Western political thought and its (non-)relation to gender : from Hobbes’ contract theory – analysed by Hannah Arendt – to issues of authority, state and governance (Claude Lefort on Machiavelli) and modern theories of biopolitics (Foucault, Agamben) and the ‘state of exception’ (Agamben, Schmitt); analysis of Carl Schmitt’s essay on Hamlet (“Hamlet or Hekuba”) on the meaning of tragedy and its relationship to history and the so-called “taboo of the queen”; Bataille’s definition of sovereignty as transgression – discussion: how biopolitically fraught are modern representations of historical sovereignty ?