Occupation: Philosopher Birth: April 15, 1952
To make things 'perfectly clear' is reactionary and stupefying. The real is not perfectly clear..
Learning to speak is like learning to shoot..
Giorgio Agamben is possibly the most delicate and probing thinker since Walter Benjamin..
Neither a pathology nor an index as such of moral default, stupidity is nonetheless linked to the most dangerous failures of human endeavor..
Stupidity exceeds and undercuts materiality, runs loose, wins a few rounds, recedes, gets carried home in a clutch of denial-and returns. Essentially….