Abstract: The COVID19 condition has demonstrated a certain shift in normalising a new enemy, that extends the measures of exception in contemporary global societies (of control). Living in a permanent states of fear anchors the so-called „reason of security“, setting back real possibilities of emancipation and political struggle. According to Giorgio Agamben´s biopolitical theory, a state of exception (ausnahmezustand/notstand/emergency powers) is a suspension of the juridical order itself that defines the threshold of the Law or limits of the concept (Agamben, G., 2005: 4). It is, in Walter Benjamin’s words, a pure form of violence that is justified in conditions of emergency, or a serious crisis threatening the State (Benjamin, W. /Demetz, P. 1978: 300).“Exceptionalism does not just play upon public panics, but also institutionalised fear of the enemy as the constitutive principle for society” (Aradau/Van Munster 2009: 689). The Lecture seeks to address the problem of exceptionalism in the context of contemporary bio- and necroart. All rights reserved info:eu-repo/semantics/other New Forms of Exceptionalism. Art and Necropolitics in the Age of COVID-19 (Lecture Series) https://phaidrabg.bg.ac.rs/o:32852 Matejić, Bojana Forms of Exceptionalism 2021 Key words: Bioart, Necroart, Exceptionalism, C19, State of Emergency eng application/pdf 208353 bytes