📚 noun • entry_id 61367
state of exception
Meanings (ES + gloss)
estado de excepción
A condition in which ordinary laws or norms have been suspended by a political authority.
Out of such rhetoric emerged an American state of exception, and with it, the disturbing outlines of inquisitorial behavior.
Regardless of how we conceive of them, rights are just abstract entitlements that, given a state of exception, can be suspended at will by the very same states that profess a belie…
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