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  1. L'ultimo #libro di #Agamben riprende i temi più importanti del suo pensiero, ma da un punto di vista diverso. Nei lavori precedenti si era concentrato soprattutto sul modo in cui il potere controlla la vita delle persone. Qui, invece, parte da una questione più profonda: che cos'è una comunità #politica e cosa tiene insieme le #persone che ne fanno parte?
    ibs.it/corpo-della-politica-li

  2. Normalité catastrophique et état d’exception permanent : la guerre civile comme horizon invisible

    De Solnit/Fritz à Agamben, la « normalité catastrophique » (catastrophe devenue routine) rejoint l’« état d’exception permanent » : sous couvert de sécurité, la guerre civile latente structure le pouvoir moderne. Pourquoi imaginer la fin du monde est plus facile que la fin du capitalisme ? Parce que cette violence structurelle est déjà notre « normalité ». #Agamben #Solnit

    homohortus31.wordpress.com/202

  3. Seems a good moment to revisit Giorgio Agamben's State of Exception. Especially chapter 1, 'The State of Exception as a Paradigm of Government'.

    #agamben #government

  4. In what remains imo the deepest reflections in the field of Holocaust #Theology[1], #Satmar Rebbe Yoel Teitelbaum reminds us that we were exiled from #Yerushalayim not because of Roman antisemitism, but as a punishment by G-D for becoming the perpetrators of שנאת חנם (shinayt khinaym, baseless hatred) as sovereigns. Our entire religion after #SecondTempleJudaism is predicated on an eventual messianic return, which was never really about a return to the land where the children of Yishroelites once lived, but a return to a life where we're no longer defined by hate, either as perpetrators or as a dispersed minority religion. Which is precisely why Rabbi Akiva tells us that in the messianic everything is as it is now -- yet different; if you believe you're waiting for a return to a place rather than redemption, that is placing your will in the place of the will of HaShem, and it is always ultimately peace and mutual respect for the stranger that is willed by HaShem. The messianic is not a state in Palestine, but the universal recognition of HaShem as the singular sovereign, the surrender of the world to divine law. Thats the whole of our Toyrah HaKoydesh, the rest is just exegesis.

    Satmar Rebbe elaborates on this by demonstrating that the #Zionist project is in fact Avodah Zarah (usually translated as "idol worship" but really its more "serving the obscure"), the practice of the "avodei hakovachim" (star worshippers) where Zarah in the Talmud is evoked specifically in discussions of how to conduct one's self in relation to the Roman and Babylonian empires. "Star worshippers" was literal (and a telling analogy; even if you serve the highest being that appears in your world, you're still serving things rather than the ineffable truth of the Name). Teitelbaum shows, through a comparative study of the invented language of Israeli Hebrew, that it is in fact a vehicle for the Romanization of Hebrew, a kind of deep imperial strategy to replace the symbolic apparatus of our lashoyn hakoydesh and its entire universe of meaning with the language of war, nationalism (goyish) and hatred.

    And to what effect? Satmar Rebbe tells us that the tachlis of the state is to ensure the lives of the population remain in perpetual danger in order to methodically affirm the necessity of its military apparatus wrt to protection. And that has been so-called #Israel's entire game since day 1.

    [1] To which I would include #Agamben's #HomoSacre, which is great

  5. Reclaiming Biopower and Biopolitics - Alliance for Sustainability

    "Biopower works by distinguishing between what is ‘normal’ and what is ‘abnormal,’ since people are disciplined to avoid the abnormal."

    "rather than choosing to constantly clash with societal expectations, it may be easier to create a ‘new normal’ where you are part of a community with the same attitudes."

    afors.org/2021/06/29/reclaimin

    #Agamben #Foucault #Environment #Biopower #Integration

  6. How Philosophy Failed the Pandemic, Or: When Did Agamben Become Alex Jones?
    by Benjamin Bratton

    "As of today, Agamben’s biggest online supporters are not his many long time readers but rather a squad of new fans, primarily a Based coalition of wounded contrarian man-childs."

    Agamben is the new Ayn Rand.

    lithub.com/how-philosophy-fail

    #philosophy #AltRight #AntiVax #Agamben

  7. Is #Agamben saying anything about the latest EU expansion of rule through exception mechanisms? It would write itself, bare life, camps, etc

    I guess when it's not about him having to use Zoom it doesn't matter so much

  8. So, does the WHO declaring the end of the health emergency change anything in #Agamben's analysis? Or was it his brave opposition to lessons over Zoom that prevented the camps?

  9. @socprof @Dahlialith

    Yes, this is the #BareLife philosophy of totalitarians. #Agamben wasn't right about everything but he was right about this.

  10. Who are the trans philosophers talking about Agamben? Where are these conversations happening?

    @philosophy

    #Philosophy #Agamben #Trans

  11. Where are we now
    By Giorgio Agamben
    A sharp vision of the present, a hint to the possible future, from the best Italian living writer and philosopher.
    @bookstodon
    #book #books #bookstodon #epidemic #politics #society #SocialMedia #Agamben

    eris.press/Where-Are-We-Now

  12. When the precious child you once fed and nurtured

    drops language from #Latour, #Mbembe, and #Agamben

    in a Thursday morning conversation

  13. #Menschenrechte als #Erklärung der #Rechte des #Menschen und #Bürgers. 1789

    Im #System des #Nationalstaates erweisen sich die sogenannten #heiligen und #unveräußerlichen #Menschenrechte, sobald sie nicht als #Rechte eines #Staatsbürgers zu #handhaben sind, als bar allen #Schutzes und aller #Realität.

    #Flüchtling; #Staatlichkeit #Inklusion

    Giorgio #Agamben: #Homo #Sacer, Die #souveräne #Macht und das #nackte #Leben, S.135