Homo sacer belongs to God precisely by being excluded from divine law

Evidence

Having defined homo sacer as “a person who is simply set outside human jurisdiction without being brought into the realm of divine law,” Giorgio Agamben goes on to describe the particular mode of exception under which “homo sacer belongs to God in the form of unsacrificeability.” One may understand this not falling under divine law while nonetheless belonging to God as the structure of the exception as included exclusion as Agamben describes it. … My question, then, is how does homo sacer “belong” to God? And is this belonging still a relation? — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 766

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies Agamben’s structure of the exception: belonging to God through unsacrificeability, outside divine law.
• XREF: Directly connects to Agamben’s own State of Exception and ban/sovereignty concepts the reader already engages in political theory.