Written in December of 2009 for an unknown class, “Imagining Agamben’s Politics of Pure Means” shows Zack’s continued engagement with the political philosophy of Giorgio Agamben and a constellation of thinkers including Foucault, Bataille, Heidegger, Aristotle, and Irigaray to examine the roots of the Western concept of the “body politic” through Agamben’s theories of the entanglement of life and politics – both the many ways violence and discrimination have been enacted upon bodies in modern politics, and where “playful” embodiment offers an opportunity for activism and community. These themes were a staple of Zack’s writing and thinking in his last two years of college and beyond, extending to his own political activism and collaboration with groups like Playing With Reality and Odyssey Works. – SS