The Unprecedented Measures Regarding Population Mobility and dwelling that have been taken by states across the world have led the philosopher Giorgio Agamben to wonder whether the coronavirus pandemic represents the perfect opportunity for governments worldwide to take advantage of “collective panic” and instate the use of a state of exception as “a normal paradigm” (Agamben, “Invention of an Epidemic”). Agamben's intervention in the global conversation about the impact of the pandemic has been met with outright criticism among some commentators for at least two reasons. First, it seemed that he gave in too easily to the temptation of reading the reality of the quarantine zone containing potentially infected individuals as a confirmation of his own views of the state's minimization of the life of its citizens to the status of a bare/naked life (nuda vita) (Agamben, Homo Sacer 6; Agamben, Means without End...
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July 01 2022
“Hominids with an Infected Brain” Engage in Viral Debate: Agamben and Žižek on the Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic on Human Relationships
The Pluralist (2022) 17 (2): 59–67.
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Ionut Untea; “Hominids with an Infected Brain” Engage in Viral Debate: Agamben and Žižek on the Impact of the Coronavirus Pandemic on Human Relationships. The Pluralist 1 July 2022; 17 (2): 59–67. doi: https://doi.org/10.5406/19446489.17.2.12
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