In a small memoir on photographs that sit in his office, the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben laments an unheeded warning in Hannah Arendt’s work. To Agamben, Arendt’s time to be read has passed: If it is true, as Benjamin writes, that every book carries with it a historical index that marks the moment when it…
In the second lecture of Foucault’s course at the Collège de France, “Society Must Be Defended”, we are introduced to the discourse on right within modern political thought in the context of a prolonged war. This war will be, for Foucault, the object of his analysis. It will guide the developments, breaks, and shifts in…
[manuscript for presentation at Stony Brook] To Have No Face: Introduction Like so many Foucault conference papers start with an epigraphical quotation of Deleuze, I will, in turn, start mine with a quote from Michel Foucault: do you think that I would keep so persistently to my task, if I were not preparing – with…
We Stand Without Apology Before a Resigned Philosophy: The history of philosophy is, among many other things, a history of an articulation of a world disclosed exclusively through increasingly refined notions of capacity and ability. In an insurgent context, this would not be a controversial claim. But there is no place in insurgency among those…
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