States don’t really mind their citizens dying (provided they don’t all do it at once): they just don’t like anyone else to kill them
Malcolm Bull, 16 December 2004
State of Exception
by Giorgio Agamben, translated by Kevin Attell.
Chicago, 104 pp., £8.50, January 2005,0 226 00925 4 Show More
by Giorgio Agamben, translated by Kevin Attell.
Chicago, 104 pp., £8.50, January 2005,
“... The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben does not want his fingerprints taken and, unlike like most European critics of the evil empire, he has been willing to forego an academic visit to the United States in order to prevent it happening. What is at stake, he explains, is the ‘new “normal” bio-political relationship between citizens and the state ... ”
