L'excepcionalitat permanent

The sovereign is among us again. We do not always see him but he is present: incarnated in different figures, he controls our daily lives and applies, incessantly, a permanent exceptionality. Recovering the legal-military language of the 20th century and halfway between chronicle and essay, Gozalo Salellas updates the concept of the state of exception in contemporary societies and outlines the six teleological and somatic states that the sovereign currently uses. To reflect on the power of it is to better understand a key condition of our time.