Politics freed from every ban requires thinking abandonment beyond every idea of law

Evidence

And yet the question of how to describe a belonging that would not be within the law remains. The question is made all the more urgent when Agamben argues that the task of political theory is to find a space that would be void of relation, and most particularly of relation to law, even in the mode of the exception, even in the ban that banishes the subject from law: “Only if it is possible to think the Being of abandonment beyond every idea of law (even that of the empty form of law’s ‘being in force without significance’) will we have moved out of the paradox of sovereignty toward a politics freed from every ban.” — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 766

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: whether a politics beyond the ban is actually thinkable, or whether the ban is constitutive of the political.
• XREF: connects to: Formal logic and law serve the status quo once stripped of political content — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 225