Remembrance restores possibility to the past, making what happened incomplete and completing what never was. Remembrance is neither what happened nor…

- Giorgio Agamben

The coming being is whatever being.

- Giorgio Agamben

Life and death are not properly scientific concepts but rather political concepts, which as such acquire a political meaning precisely only through a…

- Giorgio Agamben

Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows for the physical eli…

- Giorgio Agamben

To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a decision that puts an end to the ambiguity of pote…

- Giorgio Agamben

The camp is the space that is opened when the state of exception begins to become the rule.

- Giorgio Agamben

In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man.

- Giorgio Agamben

God did not die; he was transformed into money

- Giorgio Agamben

One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use but to free them …

- Giorgio Agamben