On the concept of inoperosity in the recent philosophy of Giorgio Agamben

Abstract

This work aims to examine the concept of inoperosità proposed by Giorgio
Agamben – in the last phases of his project entitled Homo Sacer – and pointed as a possible
vehicle of evasion of the diagnosis of sovereign power and bare life’s hypertrophy.
Proceeding to the reading and analysis of Il regno e la gloria, published in 2007, and Nudità,
published in 2009, the text that follows might not only reclaim the genesis of the concept
but it might also try to demonstrate how the concept arises to those that dedicate themselves
to the task of thinking contemporary politics, without leaving behind the question
about its pervasion force. In this context it is also important to investigate how the notion
of inoperosity may be conceptually absorbed as well as to study the appropriated ways
to disarticulate the dispositives of power – which are operative principles both to the
relation between law and violence, as the relation between culture and knowledge.