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According to Giorgio Agamben, this kind of violence, which necessarily bears a juridical value, is another example of the fusion of right to " bare life " ( It.

vita nuda, Grk.

zoe ) that transforms the juridical system into a " death machine ," able to perform acts of pure violence as needed for self-legitimation, creating Homo sacer, a being that cannot be " murdered " or " sacrificed " but only killed.