This is my translation of the new Giorgio Agamben’s intervention, original in Italian is here. Giorgio Agamben — To Whom The Word Is Addressed? In every age poets, philosophers and prophets have unreservedly lamented and denounced the vices and shortcomings of their times. Those who thus groaned and accused, however…

By Mario Sousa Originally published here on 15 June 1998, reprinted with some references. Further reading by Mario Sousa and contact info are here. From Hitler to Hearst, from Conquest to Solzhenitsyn The history of the millions of people who were allegedly incarcerated and died in the labor camps of…

My translation of the Quodlibet text. Italian original is here. Previously, I posted an English translation of the transcription of his actual speech, this is a re-worked version for print, which I found even superior to the spoken version. “To begin with, I would like to take up some of…

Interview with Giorgio Agamben by Arno Widmann for Frankfurter Rundschau, June 30, 2019 English translation by Lena Bloch, original publication in German here. Crisis as a permanent state: “We live in a permanent state of emergency declared by the state,” said Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. Mr. Agamben, what does your name mean? Philologists explained to me that it comes from Armenian: Agambenian, child of Agamben. But I don’t know what Agamben means…

The yellow press is raving that “Putin is going to annex”. They care zero about people. They are apparently not human because they do not hate Russia. Donbas is a “land without people” to NATO and the US. As is Crimea or Kherson. Americans, look this person in the eyes…

Ukrainian "independence: has been a fake since Maidan. Now it is clearer than ever. What the hell people are supporting? Do they even know? Volodymyr Zelensky virtually opened the New York Stock Exchange on the morning of September 6, symbolically ringing the bell via video stream. Zelensky announced that his…

Giorgio Agamben — August 4, 2022, my translation from Italian, the original is on Quodlibet. The speeches one hears so often today about the end of history and the beginning of a post-human and post-historical age all forget the simple fact that man is always in the process of becoming…

By DANIELA RANIERI The Daily Fact JULY 28, 2022 Translated from Italian If you haven’t booked your vacation yet, Zelensky has an offer for you. As you know, Ukraine has responded to Russian aggression with NATO weapons and an unprecedented, pervasive and efficient propaganda spread expertly via social media. The…

Why, indeed, did Russia INVADE Ukraine, a peaceful benign bucolic country with blue skies and sunflowers? ? On the other hand, why only some lives matter which are "European", but the lives of Donbas civilians, 1400 and counting, who have been killed since 2008, matter nothing? They simply do not…