The face and the death
Original column BY: Giorgio Agamben Translation BY: Costantino Ceoldo PEJOURNAL - It seems that in the new planetary order that is taking shape, two things, apparently unrelated to each other, are destined to be completely removed: face and death. We will try to investigate whether they are not somehow connected and what is the meaning of their removal. That the vision of one's face and the face of others is a decisive experience for man was already known to the ancients: “What is called 'face' - writes Cicero - cannot exist in any animal except in man” and the Greeks…