[{"data":1,"prerenderedAt":-1},["ShallowReactive",2],{"$fOR6m4HQCRZXiSOeRcoj0ldMFPtUzGHjtV1pwB8vH8xI":3,"$ftJasGJMkww4_YZZUefTEzeNMLKP1yBvcCK6enQHGTRI":12},{"author":4,"tags":11},{"author_id":5,"author_name":6,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"bio":9,"short_bio":9,"bio_jsonld":9,"slug":10,"image_url":9},5963,"Giorgio Agamben","G",29,null,"giorgio-agamben",[],{"quotes":13,"pagination":80},[14,22,29,36,43,49,55,61,68,74],{"id":15,"quote_text":16,"author_id":5,"source_id":17,"has_image":18,"author":19,"source":20,"quote_tag":21,"commentary":9},3682212,"Those who are truly contemporary are those who neither perfectly coincide with their time nor adapt to its demands... Contemporariness, then, is that relationship with time that adheres to it through a disconnection.",7,false,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":23,"quote_text":24,"author_id":5,"source_id":25,"has_image":18,"author":26,"source":27,"quote_tag":28,"commentary":9},3052545,"One of the lessons of Auschwitz is that it is infinitely harder to grasp the mind of an ordinary person than to understand the mind of a Spinoza or Dante.",6,{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":30,"quote_text":31,"author_id":5,"source_id":25,"has_image":18,"author":32,"source":33,"quote_tag":34,"commentary":35},3052542,"What our investigation has shown is that the real problem, the central mystery of politics is not sovereignty, but government; it is not God, but the angel; it is not the king, but ministry; it is not the law, but the police – that is to say, the governmental machine that they form and support.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],"**The Backstory**\nThis quote is likely from Giorgio Agamben's book \"State of Exception\" (2003), where he explores the relationship between sovereignty and governmentality. During this time, Agamben was reflecting on the erosion of traditional notions of sovereignty in the face of globalized power structures and the increasing reliance on bureaucratic apparatuses. His work was influenced by the rise of neoliberalism and the securitization of Western societies.\n\n**The Hidden Insight**\nThe hidden insight in this quote lies in the way Agamben reverses the traditional hierarchy of power, placing the governmental machine (police, bureaucracy, etc.) at the center of the political apparatus, rather than the sovereign or the law. This shift in focus highlights the ways in which power is exercised through subtle, everyday mechanisms, rather than grand, exceptional acts.\n\n**How to Use This**\nTo apply this mindset today, recognize that true power often lies not in the grand gestures of leadership, but in the mundane, administrative decisions that shape our lives. By paying attention to the ways in which bureaucratic systems and institutions exert control, you can develop a more nuanced understanding of how power operates and how to navigate its complexities.",{"id":37,"quote_text":38,"author_id":5,"source_id":25,"has_image":18,"author":39,"source":40,"quote_tag":41,"commentary":42},3052538,"The friend is not another I, but an otherness immanent in selfness, a becoming other of the self. At the point at which I perceive my existence as pleasant, my perception is traversed by a concurrent perception that dislocates it and deports it towards the friend, towards the other self. Friendship is this desubjectivization at the very heart of the most intimate perception of self.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],"**The Backstory**\n\nThis quote is from Giorgio Agamben's book \"What is an Apparatus?\" (2009), a collection of essays that explore the concept of biopower and its effects on human relationships. As a philosopher, Agamben was particularly concerned with the ways in which modern society erodes individual autonomy and intimacy. At the time, he was reflecting on the state of the world after the events of 9/11 and the subsequent wars on terror.\n\n**The Hidden Insight**\n\nAgamben's quote reveals a paradoxical relationship between selfhood and otherness. On one hand, friendship is often seen as a reinforcement of individual identity, where \"I\" finds an echo in another person. However, Agamben argues that true friendship involves a desubjectivization – a surrendering of the ego to become something greater than oneself. This paradoxical process deports us from our own perceptions and transports us towards the other, blurring the lines between self and not-self.\n\n**How to Use This**\n\nTo cultivate meaningful friendships in today's hyper-individualized world, one must be willing to let go of their own ego-bound perceptions and become open to being disrupted by another person. By embracing this desubjectivization, we can experience a form of \"becoming other\" that allows us to transcend our individual limitations and connect with others on a deeper level.",{"id":44,"quote_text":45,"author_id":5,"source_id":25,"has_image":18,"author":46,"source":47,"quote_tag":48,"commentary":9},3052532,"Every culture is first and foremost a particular experience of time, and no new culture is possible without an alteration in this experience. The original task of a genuine revolution, therefore, is never merely to ‘change the world’, but also – and above all – to ‘change time’.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":50,"quote_text":51,"author_id":5,"source_id":25,"has_image":18,"author":52,"source":53,"quote_tag":54,"commentary":9},3052528,"If Bartleby is a new Messiah, he comes not, like Jesus, to redeem what was, but to save what was not. The Tartarus into which Bartleby, the new savior, descends is the deepest level of the Palace of Destinies, that whose sight Leibniz cannot tolerate, the world in which nothing is compossible with anything else, where “nothing exists rather than something.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":56,"quote_text":57,"author_id":5,"source_id":25,"has_image":18,"author":58,"source":59,"quote_tag":60,"commentary":9},3052517,"In the eyes of authority – and maybe rightly so – nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":62,"quote_text":63,"author_id":5,"source_id":25,"has_image":18,"author":64,"source":65,"quote_tag":66,"commentary":67},3052508,"One of the essential characteristics of the state of exception-the provisional abolition of the distinction among legislative, executive, and judicial powers-here shows its tendency to become a lasting practice of government.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],"**The Backstory**\nGiorgio Agamben's concept of the \"state of exception\" was heavily influenced by his research on Carl Schmitt's theories of sovereignty and the Nazi regime's use of emergency powers. Agamben wrote extensively on this topic in his book \"State of Exception\" (2003), which was a response to the US government's handling of the War on Terror. During this time, Agamben was concerned with the erosion of civil liberties and the blurring of lines between law and executive power.\n\n**The Hidden Insight**\nAgamben's quote reveals a paradoxical tendency of the state of exception to become a normalized and lasting practice of government. This is not just a critique of authoritarian regimes, but also a commentary on the ways in which emergency powers can become a permanent feature of governance, even in democratic societies. The provisional abolition of distinctions between legislative, executive, and judicial powers creates a situation where the rule of law is suspended, and arbitrary power becomes the norm.\n\n**How to Use This**\nTo apply this insight to your own work or life, consider how you might be complicit in perpetuating a culture of exception. Are there areas where you're allowing temporary measures to become permanent, or where you're sacrificing long-term principles for short-term gains? Be mindful of the ways in which you might be contributing to a normalization of emergency powers, and strive to create more sustainable and equitable systems.",{"id":69,"quote_text":70,"author_id":5,"source_id":25,"has_image":18,"author":71,"source":72,"quote_tag":73,"commentary":9},3052492,"Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows for the physical elimination not only of political adversaries but of entire categories of citizens who for some reason cannot be integrated into the political system.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"id":75,"quote_text":76,"author_id":5,"source_id":25,"has_image":18,"author":77,"source":78,"quote_tag":79,"commentary":9},3052484,"God did not die; he was transformed into money.",{"id":5,"author_name":6,"slug":10,"author_name_first_letter":7,"article_count":8,"image_url":9},{},[],{"currentPage":81,"totalPages":82,"totalItems":8,"itemsPerPage":83},1,3,10]