Autonomies: **Giorgio Agamben: To believe and not to believe**
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In 1973, writing Tools for Conviviality, Ivan Illich predicted that the catastrophe of the industrial system would become a crisis that would usher in a new era. “The total collapse of the industrial monopoly on production will be the result … Continue reading →
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Autonomies: **Giorgio Agamben: To live or to survive**
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Those who govern us today are trying to organise the survival of humanity, that is, they are trying to transform the living into survivors. But what survives is no longer alive; only those who do not survive their own way … Continue reading →
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Autonomies: **Giorgio Agamben: War is peace**
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Among the horrors of war that are often forgotten is its survival in peacetime through industrial transformations. It is well known – but forgotten – that the barbed wire with which many still fence their fields and properties comes from … Continue reading →
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Autonomies: **Giorgio Agamben: On artificial intelligence and natural stupidity**
https://autonomies.org/2025/10/giorgio-agamben-on-artificial-intelligence-and-natural-stupidity/
“An age of barbarism is beginning, and science will be at its service.” The age of barbarism is not yet over, and Nietzsche’s diagnosis is now being confirmed. The sciences are so attentive to satisfying and even anticipating every demand … Continue reading →
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Autonomies: **Giorgio Agamben: Where are we?**
https://autonomies.org/2025/09/giorgio-agamben-where-are-we/
In hell. Any discussion that does not start from this awareness is simply unfounded. The circles in which we find ourselves are not arranged vertically, but scattered throughout the world. Wherever men and women associate, they produce hell. The circles … Continue reading →
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Autonomies: Guy Debord’s film eye
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Considering the story of my life, it is obvious to me that I cannot produce a cinematic “work” in the usual sense of the term. Guy Debord, In girum imus nocte et consumimur igni In the summer heat of a … Continue reading →
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Autonomies: Giorgio Agamben – Difference and Repetition: On Guy Debord’s Films (1995)
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Returning to a text that we have published before, we close our series on Guy Debord’s films with a reflection on the same by Giorgio Agamben. My aim here is to define certain aspects of Debord’s poetics, or rather of … Continue reading →
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Autonomies: Giorgio Agamben: On False Relationships
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A good definition of political power is that which characterises it as the art of placing people in false relationships. This, and nothing else, is what power does first and foremost, in order to then govern them as it wishes. … Continue reading →
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