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This lecture will presented by Jason E. Smith from the Art Center College of Design. He will discuss his paper "Form-of-Life or Mode of Production: The Figure of the Slave in Giorgio Agamben鈥檚 Use of Bodies". What is fascinating about Agamben's text is the almost total absence of the conceptual persona with which the series opened,聽homo sacer. In its stead is another figure drawn from聽classical sources, in this case not Roman law but Greek philosophy: the slave.聽Smith聽critically responds to Agamben's use of the figure of the slave within his conceptual economy, asking where this conceptual strategy should have lead his thinking, but did not.