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Giorgio Agamben and the coronavirus pandemic: interventions

☛ Una voce di Giorgio Agamben, Quodlibet (publisher).

Una voce di Giorgio Agamben is a an online platform where Giorgio Agamben has been publishing short public interventions in Italian since March 2017. It is hosted and maintained by the Italian publisher Quodlibet, where many of Giorgio Agamben’s books have been published.

On February 26, 2020, Giorgio Agamben started to publish short interventions on a regular basis, all focusing on the 2019-2020 coronavirus pandemic. This entry was created as a way to keep track of those interventions and their accompanying translations. It is worth noting those interventions spur many reactions online: they are too numerous to be listed here. This entry will be updated with new interventions as they appear. Interventions are listed in reverse chronological order of their publication on Quodlibet.

Updated: 2021.01.25

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Some of those interventions were gathered in a book titled A che punto siamo? L’epidemia come politica released by Quodlibet on July 9, 2020. This volume includes modifications to interventions already published on Una voce di Giorgio Agamben, along with a foreword (“Avvertenza”), interviews, and a short essay previously unpublished (“Il diritto e la vita”). Some of those new additions have been translated and made available online:

  • Il diritto e la vita, chapter from the book.
  • El derecho y la vida, same chapter from the book, trans. Artillería Inmanente
  • Polemos epidemios, chapter from the book, trans. Artillería Inmanente, (interview with Dimitra Pouliopoulou for the Greek journal Babylonia, May 20, 2020)
  • La nuda vida, chapter from the book, trans. Artillería Inmanente (interview with Ivar Ekman for the Swedish Public Radio, April 19, 2020)

Book-lenght collections with translations of Agamben’s interventions on the pandemic:

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  1. January 25th, 2021 – Di che colore è la notte?

  2. January 20th, 2021 – Una profezia di Lichtenberg

  3. January 5th, 2021 – Filosofia del contatto

  4. December 28, 2020 – Gaia e Ctonia

  5. December 15, 2020 – Capitalismo comunista

  6. November 23, 2020 – Sul tempo che viene

  7. November 6, 2020 – Si è abolito l’amore

  8. October 30, 2020 – Alcuni dati

  9. October 8, 2020 – Il volto e la maschera

  10. October 5, 2020 – Quando la casa brucia

  11. July 30, 2020 – Stato di eccezione e stato di emergenza

  12. July 13, 2020 – Che cos’è la paura?

  13. July 10, 2020 – Due vocaboli infami

  14. May 11, 2020 – Biosicurezza e politica

  15. May 2, 2020 – La medicina come religione

  16. April 28, 2020 – Sul vero e sul falso

  17. April 22, 2020 – Nuove riflessioni, a version of the same interview was published the next day in La Verità

  18. April 20, 2020 – Fase 2

    • Phase 2, trans. Florence Balique
    • Phase 2, trans. Annie Gamet
    • Fase 2, trans. Artillería Inmanente
    • Fase 2, trans. Federica G. Luna
    • Φάση 2, trans. Panayotis Kalamaras
    • Φάση 2, trans. Αναστάσιος Θεοφιλογιαννάκος, Αντίφωνο

  19. April 14, 2020 – Una domanda

  20. April 8, 2020 – David Cayley: “Questions about the current pandemic from the point of view of Ivan Illich”

  21. April 6, 2020 – Distanziamento sociale

  22. March 27, 2020 – Riflessioni sulla peste

  23. March 17, 2020 – Chiarimenti

  24. March 11, 2020 – Contagio

  25. February 26, 2020 – L’invenzione di un’epidemia. Reproduced in il manifesto (paywall; archived version).

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Missing from this list are additional interventions on other websites and in various media and (most recent at the top):

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