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Tag Archives: Giorgio Agamben
Giorgio Agamben: Adam’s childhood
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
Giorgio Agamben: The mystery of power
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
Giorgio Agamben: To believe and not to believe
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
Giorgio Agamben: To live or to survive
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
Marcello Tarí: Revisiting the Concept of Revolution
“A Conversation with Marcello Tarí” (Translated and Edited by Nikola García), published in PoLAR: Political and Legal Anthropology Review, 31/03/2022. This interview is part of the series Ethnographic Encounters with Destituent Power In this interview conducted by POLAR Digital Editorial Fellow Nikola Garcia, … Continue reading
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Tagged Giorgio Agamben, Marcello Tarí, Mario Tronti, revolution
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Giorgio Agamben: War is peace
Among the horrors of war that are often forgotten is its survival in peacetime through industrial transformations. It is well known – but forgotten – that the barbed wire with which many still fence their fields and properties comes from … Continue reading
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Tagged anti-militarism, civil war, Giorgio Agamben, State and terror
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Giorgio Agamben: On artificial intelligence and natural stupidity
“An age of barbarism is beginning, and science will be at its service.” The age of barbarism is not yet over, and Nietzsche’s diagnosis is now being confirmed. The sciences are so attentive to satisfying and even anticipating every demand … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: Where are we?
In hell. Any discussion that does not start from this awareness is simply unfounded. The circles in which we find ourselves are not arranged vertically, but scattered throughout the world. Wherever men and women associate, they produce hell. The circles … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben – Difference and Repetition: On Guy Debord’s Films (1995)
Returning to a text that we have published before, we close our series on Guy Debord’s films with a reflection on the same by Giorgio Agamben.
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Tagged Art and Revolution, Giorgio Agamben, Guy Debord, Situationists
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Giorgio Agamben: Whom the gods would destroy, they first make mad
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 →