State of Exception and Impasse Dynamics

Recent literature has pointed out that "the jargon of exception" -especially the one
adopted by Carl Schmitt and Giorgio Agamben- has, as its drawback, the fact of completely
erasing the fundamental role of societal forces into the modern political arena.
Thus, if it seems to be unavoidable to use the notion of exception, at the same time the
main frameworks provided on it appear to be somewhat lacking. To address this very difficult
issue a new theoretical analysis is needed.
I will start by considering an apparently unrelated piece of literature --the one on constitutive
rules, developed mainly in analytical philosophy. More specifically, my investigation,
to give a contribution to the topic of exception, needs to find an answer to the following
question: what happens when something goes wrong while following this kind of
rules, viz. when either a mismatch between rules and facts or an internal contradiction
among rules causes an impasse?