Giorgio Agamben

The face and the death

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…
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The war and the peace

The war and the peace

BY: Giorgio Agamben* Translation BY: Costantino Ceoldo PEJOURNAL - It is necessary to take seriously the thesis, repeated several times by governments, according to which humanity and every country are currently in a state of war. It is understood that such a thesis serves to legitimize the state of exception with its drastic limitations on freedom of movement and absurd expressions such as “curfew”, otherwise difficult to justify. The bond between the powers of government and the war is, however, more intimate and consubstantial. The fact is that war is something they cannot in any way permanently do without. In…
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