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Tag Archives: Giorgio Agamben
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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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
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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: 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 →