A highly influential book by Italian philosopher Agamber, in which he greatly expands upon Foucault’s notion of ‘biopolitics,’ considering how the nation-state abuses the Schmittian concept of sovereignty and ‘state of exception’ in order to create a new normality in which ‘bare life’—the basic conditions of human survival—become controlled and manipulated by the state. See in particular Homo Sacer and Part 3 The CAMP as Paradigm of the Modern.