The Gnat and the Sovereign

By   July 13, 2011

This short essay interprets a narrative from the Talmud to explore Agamben’s concept of bare life and Benjamin’s concept of messianic violence.

Allen Feldman

Allen Feldman, a pioneer in the ethnography of violence, the body, and the senses, is the author of Archives of the Insensible: Of War, Photopolitics and Dead Memory (University of Chicago, 2015) and Formations of Violence: the Narrative of the Body and Political Terror in Northern Ireland (1991).