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Journal Article
Cyber Homo Sacer: A Critical Analysis of Cyber Islamophobia in the Wake of the Muslim Ban
2021
Overview
This article takes up Giorgio Agamben's formulation of “bare life” (1998) and
applies it to the contemporary perpetuation of violent Islamophobia in online
spaces, producing what I term a figuration of the (Muslim) cyber homo
sacer. Particularly focusing upon the proliferation of virulent,
anti-Muslim rhetoric and discourse on Twitter, I follow the hashtags #Muslimban
and #BanMuslim to demonstrate how Agamben's concepts of homo
sacer, state of exception, and the camp—though with important
differences—helpfully illuminate the ways in which current Islamophobic and
anti-Muslim sentiment online can be understand as a refiguration of Muslims as
bodies which exist in a state of in-betweenness. In this “state of exception,”
Muslims become more vulnerable to verbal, emotional, psychic, and ultimately
physical violence, at the same time as they become less recognizable to the
policies and laws which should, ostensibly, protect them.
