Giorgio Agamben (born 1942) is an Italian philosopher whose work extends Foucault’s analyses of biopower and sovereignty. His concepts of bare life, states of exception and homo sacer examine how modern politics operates through zones where law is suspended.
Agamben’s notion of profanation offers frameworks for resistance. Profanation means returning sacred or fetishised things to common human use, stripping them of transcendent meaning. This practice opens possibilities for different relations to objects and technologies.
Related: biopolitics, Foucault, gamification