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
“The fracture between theology and oikonomia, being and action, insofar as it makes the praxis free and 'anarchic', opens in fact, at the same time, the possibility and necessity of its government. In a historical moment that witnesses a radical… — 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
