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Tag Archives: Giorgio Agamben
Giorgio Agamben: On False Relationships
A good definition of political power is that which characterises it as the art of placing people in false relationships. This, and nothing else, is what power does first and foremost, in order to then govern them as it wishes. … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben on Guy Debord
… bringing to light — beyond all vitalism — the intimate intertwining of being and living was certainly then, as it is today, the unavoidable task of thought and politics. Giorgio Agamben From Ill Will (15/07/2025) Earlier this year, Giorgio … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: The coming middle ages
A passage from Sergio Bettini’s book on L’arte alla fine del mondo antico [Art at the End of the Ancient World] describes a world that is difficult not to recognise as similar to the one we are living in. “The … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: The old and the new
Why are we able to describe and analyse the old that is fading away, but we are unable to imagine the new? Perhaps because we believe, more or less unconsciously, that the new is something that arrives – we don’t … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: Only a god can save us now
Heidegger’s abrupt statement in the 1976 “Spiegel” interview: “Only a God can save us” has always been perplexing. To understand it, we must first put it into context. Heidegger had just spoken of the planetary domination of technology, which nothing … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: A political allegory
We are all in hell, but some seem to think that there is nothing to do here but to study and describe in detail the demons, their horrible appearance, their ferocious behaviour, their infamous machinations. Perhaps they delude themselves into … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: The remnant of Israel
And it shall come to pass in that day, that the remnant of Israel, and such as are escaped of the house of Jacob, shall no more again stay upon him that smote them; but shall stay upon the LORD, the Holy … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: Good and Evil
The old doctrine that evil is merely the deprivation of the good, and therefore does not exist in itself, needs to be corrected and supplemented in the sense that it is not so much the deprivation as the perversion of … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: Conjuncture and revolution
Conjuncture and revolution It is a fact on which we should never tire of reflecting that one of the key terms in our political vocabulary – “revolution” – has been taken from astronomy, where it designates the movement of a … Continue reading
Guy Debord’s film eye
Considering the story of my life, it is obvious to me that I cannot produce a cinematic “work” in the usual sense of the term. Guy Debord, In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni In the summer heat of a … Continue reading →