Giorgio Agamben
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Toni, My Father
PHILOSOPHY: From prison rituals to 1970s utopias, Anna Negri’s film reframes Toni Negri beyond labels, tracing conatus, family conflict, and the power of happy passions.
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Cultural resistance
UKRAINE: In Kyiv, cultural life is flourishing despite the war. We explore the city through artists, intellectuals, researchers, curators, cultural workers and poets who have stayed behind. Some say it feels like the ‘new Berlin’. Here, artists are neither commentators nor observers: they create bonds, build networks, tell small stories and provide a means of…
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The taste of Kyiv
UKRAINE: How can you think when you are surrounded by explosions? In Kyiv, the normal and the abnormal exist side by side. Here, UNESCO has reported at least 670 destroyed cultural sites, including 145 religious and 238 of historical/artistic significance. On this investigative journey, we meet European intellectuals on the front line. How can we…
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The new barbarians
MIGRATION: When visiting a migrant island like Lampedusa, what experiences can be linked to the theory of the 'Other'? Perhaps some philosophers can show the way. Unless the migrants are the best guides.
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‘Refolution!’
UPRISING: UPRISING / Asef Bayat attempts to challenge the analysis of the Arab Spring (2011) as an unequivocal defeat.
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ChatGPT – an impersonal paradigm shift?
ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE: Is it only now that, with new technology such as ChatGPT, individualism is about to change?
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Human safari
CONFLICT: The story of wealthy foreigners who turned besieged Sarajevo into a human safari, paying high fees for the chance to shoot at the residents.
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Permanent state of emergency?
Coronavirus: Are the European authorities truthful about how long the measures will last? Can you lock up a population for 12-18 months before a vaccine is developed?
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Agamben and the Ethics of Abnegation
The Coming Community is a rich, complex and at times impenetrable text drawing you into the realm of the profane before finally presenting us to «the solution».