The State of Exemption as a Paradigm of Government

Girogio Agamben, in his book Homo Sacer, look at the interplay between philosophy, biology and politics and how with the advent of modernity their resultant combinations have forever altered the way man (in the context of society and people) sees

The Metropolis and Mental Life / The New Urbanism and the Communitarian Trap

In Metropolis and the Mental Life Georg Simmel becomes one of the first academics to examine the conditions of the modern city, claiming that the city produces conditions of behavior unfathomable to those in the country.  He states that while