Agamben and Nonprofits 

Parallels can be drawn with the critique advanced in The Revolution Will Not Be Funded, which analyzes the nonprofit industrial complex as a mechanism for managing and depoliticizing the marginalized. Just like rights, political recognition through nonprofits is conditional. You “get funded” if you speak the right language, follow the rules, and make yourself legible to the state and philanthro-capital. Nonprofits include marginalized groups by granting them voice only through exclusionary criteria (grant requirements, metrics, respectability). This is Agamben’s “exclusive inclusion” at a structural level. The nonprofit world manages bare life; funding structures produce a population that is depoliticized, pacified, and always precarious — rights and recognition dangling on continued compliance and capacity. Revolution Will Not Be Funded shows a seemingly softer, neoliberal version: people are allowed political life only through institutions that constantly threaten to withdraw it.

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