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The Revolt of Bare Lives and the Return to Normality in Heroes Season One: Genesis (2006-07)
김영훈 ( Young Hoon Kim )
영어영문학21 24권 1호 203-218(16pages)
UCI I410-ECN-0102-2012-690-002286329

Heroes exemplifies a revolt of homo sacer, a topological counterpart of the sovereign in Giorgio Agamben`s works on the state of exception and sovereignty. Through its rendering of the main characters` struggles against the Company`s conspiracy, this show portrays a political subject that attempts to constitute itself outside biopolitical sovereign power. Considering this political subject as an example of Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri`s multitude, this paper argues that the main characters become a heroic collective: a group of people who can be heroic only as a group without an authoritarian leader. This paper`s reading of the show also reveals that the heroic collective is compromised by the critical challenges that Hardt and Negri`s multitude often faces, as the struggles of the heroic collective degenerate into a conventional heroic myth: the community`s redemption through heroic sacrifice. While explicating the collective struggles of the heroic collective, this paper concludes that the heroic collective`s limitation in envisioning a new world underscores Hardt and Negri`s fail to see past sovereign politics when they imagine another world.

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