Pułapka na myszy. O stanie wyjątkowym
The Mousetrap: On States of Emergency

Summary/Abstract: Patrycja Cembrzyńska analyzes the motif of dehumanization in propaganda rhetoric that shows the enemy to be a verminous creature who seeks to destroy. In this way, the choice between disease and health can be used as a justification for ethnic cleansing. She draws from Agamben's concept of biopower, which strips the individual of his political identity and facilitates his subordination under the pretext of caring for the common good. Cembrzyńska describes artwork that addresses similar issues, such as Marina Abramović's Balkan Baroque performance. She also perceives the application of this sort of metaphor in the fight against the growing wave of terrorism.

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