Giorgio Agamben
Giorgio Agamben
Giorgio Agambenis an Italian philosopher best known for his work investigating the concepts of the state of exception, form-of-lifeand homo sacer. The concept of biopoliticsinforms many of his writings...
NationalityItalian
ProfessionPhilosopher
Date of Birth22 April 1942
CountryItaly
war mean political
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 reason cannot be integrated into the political system
eye men ordinary
In the eyes of authority - and maybe rightly so - nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man.
transformed dies
God did not die; he was transformed into money
space states camps
The camp is the space that is opened when the state of exception begins to become the rule.
demand contemporary disconnection
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.
bears essential fragile legitimacy sole source state task within
The thought of security bears within it an essential risk. A state which has security as its sole task and source of legitimacy is a fragile organism; it can always be provoked by terrorism to become more terroristic.