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.

1. May 11, 2020 – Biosicurezza e politica (EN, EN · FR · ES, ES · POR)

2. May 2, 2020 – La medicina come religione (EN · FR · DE · ES, ES · POR · GR · HR · RO · SI)

3. April 28, 2020 – Sul vero e sul falso (EN · ES · GR)

4. April 22, 2020 – Nuove riflessioni, a version of the same interview was published the next day in La Verità (EN · FR · ES · DE, DE (modified) · POR, POR · GR)

5. April 20, 2020 – Fase 2 (EN · FR · ES · GR)

6. April 14, 2020 – Una domanda (EN · FR · ES · DE · POR, POR · GR)

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

8. April 6, 2020 – Distanziamento sociale (EN · FR · ES · POR · DE, DE · PL)

9. March 27, 2020 – Riflessioni sulla peste (EN · FR · ES · POR · PL)

10. March 17, 2020 – Chiarimenti (EN · FR · ES · DE · GR · PL)

11. March 11, 2020 – Contagio (EN · FR · ES · GR)

12. February 26, 2020 – L’invenzione di un’epidemia (EN · FR, FR · ES · DE · PL) Reproduced in il manifesto

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

• Istituto Italiano per gli Studi Filosofici: “Requiem per gli studenti” by Giorgio Agamben, May 23, 2020. (EN · FR · ES · POR · PL · BA · TR).

• Interview with Zapping Radio 1 recorded on April 22, 2020, in Italian (original link).

• Interview with Le Monde March 24, 2020: «L’épidémie montre clairement que l’état d’exception est devenu la condition normale» (EN · ES).