Tag Archives: Giorgio Agamben

Often, in the widespread awareness that we are living through the end of a culture, arises the demand—or the hope—for a new beginning, that is, that after the collapse of a long tradition, a new and more vibrant one will … Continue reading →

Who are the just? What does it mean to be just? Certainly, it is not a quality of a subject, an attribute of this or that man, this or that woman. Justice—Benjamin wrote—is a state of the world, a dimension … Continue reading →

It is worth reflecting on a fact so incredible that attempts are made at all costs to sweep it under the carpet: the state that claims to be the most powerful in the world has for years been governed by … Continue reading →

One cannot understand our culture’s conception of the human being unless one remembers that at its foundation lies a man without a childhood: Adam. According to the account in Genesis, the man whom the Lord creates and places in the … Continue reading →

Paul’s second letter to the Thessalonians can be read as a prophecy concerning the current situation in the West. The apostle evokes here “a mystery of anomia”, of “lawlessness”, which is already at work, but which will not be consummated … Continue reading →

In 1973, writing Tools for Conviviality, Ivan Illich predicted that the catastrophe of the industrial system would become a crisis that would usher in a new era. “The total collapse of the industrial monopoly on production will be the result … Continue reading →

Those who govern us today are trying to organise the survival of humanity, that is, they are trying to transform the living into survivors. But what survives is no longer alive; only those who do not survive their own way … Continue reading →