Those who are truly contemporary are those who neither perfectly coincide with their time nor adapt to its demands...Contemporariness, then, is that relationship with time that adheres to it through a disconnection.
Remembrance restores possibility to the past, making what happened incomplete and completing what never was. Remembrance is neither what happened nor… - Giorgio Agamben
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
The coming being is whatever being.
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
Life and death are not properly scientific concepts but rather political concepts, which as such acquire a political meaning precisely only through a…
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
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 …
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
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…
In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man. - Giorgio Agamben
In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man.
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
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…
The camp is the space that is opened when the state of exception begins to become the rule. - Giorgio Agamben
The camp is the space that is opened when the state of exception begins to become the rule.
God did not die; he was transformed into money - Giorgio Agamben
God did not die; he was transformed into money
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