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What is a Destituent Power? — Giorgio Agamben

“if revolutions and insurrections correspond to constituent power, that is, a violence that establishes and constitutes the new law, in order to think a destituent power we have to imagine completely other strategies, whose  definition is the task of the coming politics. A power that was only just  overthrown by violence will rise again in another form, in the incessant,   inevitable dialectic between constituent  power and constituted power, violence which makes the law and violence that preserves it.” 

In this essay based on a lecture given in central France in the summer of  2013, Giorgio Agamben develops and clarifies his understanding of the  political and, in particular, the notion of destituent power (Potenza  destituente). In contrast to attempts to affirm a constituent power independent  of a relation to constituted power, which for Agamben both reproduce the governmental structure of the exception and represent the apex of  metaphysics, destituent power outlines a force  that, in its very constitution,  deactivates the governmental machine. For Agamben, it is in the sensible  elaboration of the belonging together of life and form, being and action,  beyond all relation, that the impasse of the present will be overcome. Ultimately, Agamben points not only towards what it means to become Ungovernable, but towards the potential of staying so.

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CAG report on Uttarakhand hospitals: Inoperative ICUs, X-ray machines without licence

A report filed by the Comptroller and Auditor General of India (CAG) on the outcomes of Uttarakhand’s district hospitals covering the period 2014-19, which was tabled in the state Assembly on Saturday, has been extremely critical of the state-run institutions, pointing to a lack of operation theatres for emergency surgeries and inoperative ICU facilities, X-ray machines running without license,…