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Tag Archives: Giorgio Agamben
Giorgio Agamben: The End of Judaism
One cannot understand the meaning of what is taking place in Israel today if one does not understand that Zionism constitutes a double negation of the historical reality of Judaism. Not only does it in fact transfer to the Jews … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: Science and Happiness
In spite of the usefulness we think we derive from them, the sciences cannot make us happy, because man is a speaking being, who needs to express in words joy and pain, pleasure and affliction, while science, in the last … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: Pasiphae’s bull and technique
In the myth of Pasiphae, the woman who has an artificial cow built by Daedalus in order to mate with a bull, it is legitimate to see a paradigm of technology. In this perspective, technology appears as the device through … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: The snail’s shell
A snail, after adding a number of widening rings to the delicate structure of its shell, suddenly brings its accustomed building activities to a stop. A single additional ring would increase the size of the shell sixteen times. Instead of … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: God, man, animal
From Quodlibet … When Nietzsche, almost one hundred and fifty years ago, formulated his diagnosis of the death of God, he thought that this unprecedented event would fundamentally change the existence of men on earth. ““Where are we headed? Are … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: The experience of language is a political experience
From Quodlibet (16/02/2024) … How would it be possible to really change the society and culture in which we live? Reforms and even revolutions, although they transform institutions and laws, relations of production and objects, do not question those deeper … Continue reading
The anarchy of dance/the dance of anarchism
A little wisdom is no doubt possible; but I have found this happy certainty in all things: that they prefer—to dance on the feet of chance. Friedrich Nietzsche, This Spoke Zarathustra [Contact improvisation] came out of Grand Union. We were in … Continue reading
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Gérard Granel: Modern sovereignty as the loss of limits
… the essence of Modernity seems to me to consist of a logic of the infinite, aiming to determine more and more sovereignly the finite, without having to base itself anywhere or upon anything – a foundation it has needed … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: Political consciousness, today
What defines political consciousness today? A subtle conjugation of renunciation and hope. When God ordered Abraham to sacrifice Isaac on Mount Moriah, he gave up his son without hesitation and yet – at least this is what Kierkegaard suggests in … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: The exile and the citizen
It is good to reflect on a phenomenon that is both familiar and unfamiliar to us, but which, as often occurs in such cases, can provide us with useful indications for our life among others: exile. Legal historians continue to … Continue reading →