“la santé remplace le salut” in the work of Michel Foucault
La possibilité pour l’individu d’être à la fois sujet et objet de sa propre connaissance implique que soit inversé dans le savoir le jeu de la finitude. Pour la pensée classique, celle-ci n’avait d’autre contenu que la négation de l’infini, alors que la pensée qui se forme à la fin du XVIIIe siècle lui donne […]
Giorgio Agamben on gesture
The third stage of action is, they say, that in which they faciunt ‘make’ something: in this, on account of the likeness among agere ‘to act’ and facere ‘to make’ and gerere ‘to carry or carry on,’ a certain error is committed by those who think that it is only one thing. For a person […]
Notes on “For a theory of destituent power” by Giorgio Agamben, 2013
As a matter of fact, the hypothesis I would like to suggest is that the prevailing governmental paradigm in Europe today is not only non democratic, but that it cannot either be considered as political. I will try therefore to show that the European society today is no more a political society: it is something […]
The world is a business: the messianic capitalism of Arthur Jensen
☛ Network directed by Sidney Lumet, written by Paddy Chayefsky, United-States, 1976, excerpt at 1:34:27. In the script version from January 14, 1976, pp. 125-127. IMDb. [UPDATE–Oct. 8th, 2014] This essay was translated into Persian for the Zamaneh Tribune, hosted by Radio Zamaneh: see “جهان یک تجارت است: سرمایهداریِ مسیحائیِ آرتور جِنسِن”. Founded in 2005, […]
