Sua Cuique Persona: The Ambivalent Politics of Masks
This is an extended version (more than twice the size) of an essay soon to be published in TOPIA: Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies (this entry will be updated with a link once it is published). University of Toronto Press remains the copyright holder of the content. This essay was finalized on June 16, 2020. […]
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, […]
“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 […]
