例外状態

"From this perspective, what is happening in ex-Yugoslavia and, more generally, what is happening in the processes of dissolution of traditional State organisms in Eastern Europe should be viewed not as a reemergence of the natural state of struggle of all against all-which functions as a prelude to new social contracts and new national and State localizations--but rather as the coming to light of the state of exception as the permanent structure of juridico-political de-localization and dis-location." (Homo Sacer)
　Giorgio AgambenのいうEastern Europeに1989以後の東欧諸国も含まれるとすれば、少し異なった視点からこれらの諸国を見たほうがいいのかもしれない。これはこれまでまったく思いつかなかった。
　来年は「革命」20周年である。