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 […]
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 […]
