Masks and Their Moralities
For some, instructions to wear masks in public places have been an opportunity to chart new courses in fashion or have simply been a minor inconvenience in the…
Tag: Agamben
reality check. Wie die Corona-Krise kritische und weniger kritische Theorien auf den Prüfstand stellt
Nach einer kurzen Phase der Orientierungslosigkeit begannen in der Corona-Krise die Verschwörungstheorien zu blühen. Was zeichnet diese konspirativen Erklärungsmodelle aus? Und welche Herausforderunge…
Brave New Normal World
When politicians begin to speak of a post-corona “new normality”, what does that imply? And why should we be concerned? The spread of the coronavirus and the…
Selfies | 自拍
In “Dim Stockings”, a short chapter included in his The Coming Community, Giorgio Agamben takes a cue from the prosaics of a stockings advertisement to discuss the commodification…
The Killable Horde
The film World War Z includes several scenes in which soldiers kill large numbers of zombies; not surprisingly, the movie comes to an end with a graphic image that…
The Killable Horde
The film World War Z includes several scenes in which soldiers kill large numbers of zombies; not surprisingly, the movie comes to an end with a graphic image that…