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 elimination not only of political adversaries but of entire categories of citizens who for some… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
“The friend is not another I, but an otherness immanent in selfness, a becoming other of the self. At the point at which I perceive my existence as pleasant, my perception is traversed by a concurrent perception that dislocates it and deports it towards the friend, towards the other self. Friendship is this desubjectivization at the very heart of the… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share
Life and death are not properly scientific concepts but rather political concepts, which as such acquire a political meaning precisely only through a decision. — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
The camp is the space that is opened when the state of exception begins to become the rule. — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows for the… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
“Further expanding the already large class of Foucauldian apparatuses, I shall cal an apparatus literally anything that has in some way the capacity to… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
“ ...there is no head of state in the world today who is not in virtuality a criminal . Those who shoulder the dreary… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man. — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
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… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
“As is well known, what characterizes both the Fascist and Nazi regimes is that they allowed the existing constitutions (the Albertine Statute and the… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
To believe that will has power over potentiality, that the passage to actuality is the result of a decision that puts an end to… — Giorgio Agamben Copy Share Image
