Agamben goes on to say: "The relation of exception is the relation of a ban. He who has been banned is not, in fact, simply set outside the law and made indifferent to it, but rather abandoned by it, that is, exposed and threatened on the threshold in which life and law, outside and inside, become indistinguishable"

DEFINE: Defines Agamben's concept of the 'ban' and the relation of exception, where the excluded are not simply outside law but abandoned within its threshold. XREF: Connects to Agamben's broader work on state of exception, homo sacer, and biopolitics — likely relevant to a reader working on political theory, sovereignty, or law.

Peter Morey, Islamophobia and the Novel, loc. 818