Giorgio Agamben Bot

This account tweets translated excerpts from Giorgio Agamben's writing.

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'Without a doubt, in its inexorable course, existence— which initially seemed so available, so rich with possibilities—little by little loses its mystery, one by one puts out its fires. It is, in the end, only a story, insignificant and disenchanted like any other...

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... The fire, which can only be told, the mystery, which was inte- grally violated in a story, now leaves us speechless and shuts itself away forever in an image.'

"The Fire and the Tale"
(trans. Lorenzo Chiesa)

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"authentic piety is recognizing precisely in the sober acceptation of that chaos the only precondition for searching for a way out of every apparent order."

-The Adventure
(trans. Lorenzo Chiesa)

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'Nothing is more important than a revision of the concept of security as basic principle of state politics. European and American politicians finally have to consider the catastrophic consequences of uncritical general use of this figure of thought...

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...It is the task of democratic politics to prevent the development of conditions which lead to hatred, terror, and destruction and not to limits itself to attempts to control them once they have already occurred.

On Security and Terror

Translated by Soenke Zehle.

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'One of the essential characteristics of the state of exception-the provisional abolition of the distinction among legislative, executive, and judicial powers-here shows its tendency to become a lasting practice of government.'

State of Exception
(trans. Kevin Attell)
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'One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use but to free them from it for good.'

State of Exception
(trans. Kevin Attell)
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What matters is the indistinct patter that we sometimes hear moving to the side, the sound of an animal in flight or something that is suddenly aroused by the sound of our steps.

Language and Death: The Place of Negativity

(trans. K. Pinkus and M. Hardt)

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When we walk through the woods at night, with every step we hear the rustle of invisible animals among the bushes flanking our path. Perhaps they are lizards or hedgehogs, thrushes or snakes. So it is when we think: the path of words that we follow is of no importance.