The state’s ban abandons the banned person to violence rather than merely excluding them

Evidence

The relation of exception is the relation of a ban. He who has been banned is not, in fact, simply set outside the law and made indifferent to it, but rather abandoned by it, that is, exposed and threatened on the threshold in which life and law, outside and inside, become indistinguishable” (28). — Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, 818

Categorization

• DEFINE: Agamben’s ‘relation of exception’ defined: the banned person is not excluded but abandoned — exposed on a threshold where law and life blur.
• XREF: Connects to the state-of-exception logic in The Reluctant Fundamentalist and how Changez is left in a legal gray zone, and to Hamid’s rendering of the post-9/11 Muslim as homo sacer.