Giorgio Agamben

The Politics of Logic: Badiou, Wittgenstein, and the Consequences of Formalism: Notes and Comments

My notes and comments from the first chapter of Paul Livingston’s fantastic book (so far) The Politics of Logic: Badiou, Wittgenstein, and the Consequences of Formalism. Wittgenstein wrote in the Philosophical Investigations that “What has to be accepted, the given, is—so one could say—forms of life.” Theories of what he means oscillate between a conventional […]

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Language and the Infancy of Experience: Agamben and Psychedelics

Imagine sitting on your couch and doom-scrolling through your Facebook/Twitter/Instagram feed. Someone who has never done any of that asks you what you are doing. How do you describe the experience of sitting at home on your couch, looking at a device that is showing you live or recent updates of thoughts, feelings, and actions

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