Theocratic Biopolitics: From Political Theology to Affirmative Biopolitics
A theocratic, as opposed to theo-political, life can be found embodied in contemporary forms of everyday resistance to both neoliberal and...
The fascist state of Paw Patrol
I have a dirty secret. When some of our friends at church nod in approval upon hearing that we haven't got a proper television,...
Schmitt, Agamben, and Ongoing Founding Events
Jeffrey Bussolini's article “Ongoing Founding Events in Carl Schmitt and Giorgio Agamben” is a discursive piece seeking to provide...
States of Emergency, Metaphors of Virus, and COVID-19
On 26 February, Giorgio Agamben wrote a short piece for the Italian journal Quodlibet, titled 'L'invenzione di un'epidemia.
Democracy in What State?
Giorgio Agamben, Alain Badiou, Daniel Bensaïd, Wendy Brown, Jean-Luc Nancy, Jacques Rancière, Kristin Ross and Slavoj Žižek, Democracy in...
Opinion | Cages Are Cruel. The Desert Is, Too. (Published 2018)
TUCSON — During the three and a half years I worked for the United States Border Patrol, from 2008 to 2012, America's immigration...
Agamben and Francis After the Quarantine
But it is certain that our friendship—which we assumed would open up a privileged point of access to the problem—was instead an obstacle,...
Waiting for Giorgio
IN THE SPRING of 1970, my father — the poet Kailash Vajpeyi, then 36 years old — went to Europe, the UK, and the USSR to meet fellow writers and...
A Face In The Crowd
The face, says Agamben, is the 'passion of revelation': it can be a mask of closure and disdain or a passionate openness to others.
Translation Spotlight: The Philosopher on the Threshold
In three books of oblique self-reflection Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben explores and exposes the artistic and intellectual thresholds...
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An Italian philosopher who has commented on the implications of Eritrea's governance on human rights and individual freedoms.