Telle qu’elle est pensée et léguée par la tradition ontologique, la participation se donne comme une relation hiérarchique, non-réciproque et, à partir du néoplatonisme, fortement polarisée entre l’actif et le passif. On s’intéresse dans un premier temps au concept d’epitēdeiotēs, qui vient nommer son pôle passif, pour montrer comment il permet de ...
Resumen Agamben dice que el panfleto que Sade escribe en Filosofía en el tocador es el más radical manifiesto biopolítico de la modernidad. Agamben no desarrolla ampliamente las consecuencias de este panfleto en el modo en que se configura el “dispositivo de la sexualidad”. El objetivo de este artículo es realizar una interpretación de algunos fenó...
The coronavirus pandemic which changed the lives of people around the world unveiled surprising “elective affinities” between the critics of the State of exception and the fans of the State of exception. This work discusses why the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben presented theses about the pandemic that most resemble the negationist speeches of...
The present work means to analyze the relation between politics and life throughout Michael Foucault’s and Agamben’s critical-conceptual articulations. That way, we try to explain the following question: to what extent and under which arguments is it possible to reflect upon the politics over the biological human life taking as reference Foucault’s...
During the Renaissance, enthymeme is still considered as one of the natural ways of proving, in the fields of everyday knowledge (Montaigne), or medical symptomatology (Ambroise Paré), or physiognomony (Leonardo da Vinci, Rabelais, and Della Porta), relying on semeia eikota (probable signs). When Michel Foucault wrote the chapter « The prose of the...
Abstract In the first volume of Homo sacer Agamben says that De Sade’s pamphlet “Philosophy in the bedroom” is the most radical biopolitical manifest of modernity. Agamben doesn’t develop fully the consequences thereof in this pamphlet as it is set up in the “dispositive of sexuality”. The objective of this article is to construct some of the pheno...
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O presente estudo se interessa em aprofundar o diagnóstico de Walter Benjamin acerca do empobrecimento da experiência a partir da hipótese biopolítica de Giorgio Agamben. Os dispositivos biopolíticos da modernidade já não permitem a passagem da experiência à linguagem produzindo, deste modo, formas de vida esvaziadas de ética e ação política. A seg...
Published in Chinese Political Science Review
The paper addresses a puzzle resulting from the current global state of alert: the coronavirus pandemic brought us back to the world of the allegedly sovereign nation states with borders and national governments in charge, yet in fact, this retrieved sovereignty looks very vulnerable and precarious. We explain this controversy through a triad of co...
This thesis examines the films of Marguerite Duras and Claire Denis, two celebrated French filmmakers who exhibit a profound and sustained engagement with questions of the political through their cinematic work. In particular, both Duras and Denis are attentive to subjects who exist at the edge of sites of political inclusion. Yet both filmmakers d...
