Giorgio Agamben’s speech at the Doubt And Precaution Commission (DU.PRE Commissione) on November 28, 2022. Translation from Italian “In the terminology of criminal law, an accomplice is the one who has engaged in conduct that in itself does not constitute a crime, but assists the criminal action of another person, the offender. We are being faced with individuals — indeed an entire society — that…

My translation from Italian original on Quodlibet, October 4, 2022. Giorgio Agamben: In 1958 Karl Jaspers published under the title The Atomic Bomb and the Future of Humanity a book in which he intended to radically question-as the subtitle states-The Political Consciousness of Our Time. The atomic bomb,” he begins…

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…

My translation of Agamben’s intervention on Quodlibet, January 24, 2023 Original Italian is here. “After what has happened in the past two years, it is difficult not to feel somewhat diminished, not to feel — whether one wants to or not — a kind of shame. This is not about the shame that Marx called “a kind of anger turned…

How the citizenry in the West is being brainwashed 24/7. The creation of the “official narrative”. Propaganda machine — originally published in La Fionda, Italy, by Alberto Bradanini, January 5, 2023 Introduction According to the prevailing narrative, propaganda, i.e., the systemic production of falsehoods, would affect only nations lacking freedom of expression, autocratic, authoritarian or dictatorial countries (appellations, admittedly, attributed according to convenience). In authoritarian countries, with…

Translation of the article in French, entitled “Michel Foucault and pedophilia: investigation on a media hype” There is a “common knowledge” that one of the world’s greatest thinkers of the 20th Century Michel Foucault was a “pedophile” and “raped Tunisian boys” in 1969. …

This is my English translation of the article by Faina Savenkova, child author, playwright and peace activist from Luhansk, Donbass. The original in Russian can be read here. “A year ago, the website “Mirotvorets” (Ukrainian online kill list and database of targets, includes hundreds of children) put my contact data for free public access. I wrote…

English translation of the original in Italian. Giorgio Agamben, December 5, 2022… “Truth and the name of God Philosophers have been talking about the death of God for almost a century now, and, as is often the case, this truth seems today to be tacitly and almost unconsciously accepted by the common man, without, however, its consequences being…