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D. Alan Dean

D. Alan Dean

From Agamben to Critical Police Theory

This post is about the police: the emergence of contemporary police structures in absolutist states, especially the Napoleonic regime; the…

Mar 30

Mar 30

D. Alan Dean

About Aaron Bushnell

In 1969 a philosophy student named Jan Palach self-immolated in Prague, Czechoslovakia. His protest was proximally a response to the Soviet…

Feb 27

About Aaron Bushnell

Feb 27

D. Alan Dean

On being furious

It happens more than seems possible. I will read a new post — a thought, an “intervention” — on Giorgio Agamben’s blog, and it will…

Nov 15, 2023

On being furious

Nov 15, 2023

D. Alan Dean

“The Only Keys to the Interpretation of History are Angelology and Demonology”

A translation of Angeli e demoni, a blog post by Giorgio Agamben.

Aug 5, 2023

“The Only Keys to the Interpretation of History are Angelology and Demonology”

Aug 5, 2023

D. Alan Dean

Bare Life and the Vaccine (Giorgio Agamben)

A translation of Agamben’s post La nuda vita e il vaccino from his blog at Quodlibet.it.

Apr 17, 2021

Bare Life and the Vaccine (Giorgio Agamben)

Apr 17, 2021

D. Alan Dean

Affliction, the sacred, humiliation, truth: Some excerpts from Simone Weil for Good Friday

These are excerpts from Weil’s essay, “La Personne et le sacré,” translated by Richard Rees into English as “Human Personality.”

Apr 2, 2021

Affliction, the sacred, humiliation, truth: Some excerpts from Simone Weil for Good Friday

Apr 2, 2021

D. Alan Dean

New Reflections from David Cayley: “Pandemic Revelations”

New on David Cayley’s blog.

Dec 4, 2020

New Reflections from David Cayley: “Pandemic Revelations”

Dec 4, 2020

D. Alan Dean

The Times Ahead

A translation of Sul tempo che viene by Giorgio Agamben, from his blog, November 23, 2020.

Nov 23, 2020

Nov 23, 2020

D. Alan Dean

Requiem for the Students (Giorgio Agamben)

A translation from the blog Diario della crisi at the website of the Istituto Italiano per gli Studi…

May 23, 2020

Requiem for the Students (Giorgio Agamben)

May 23, 2020

D. Alan Dean

The Sacredness of this Nothingness

Agamben has written about a paradigm for governance emerging on the basis of biosecurity concerns, “whose efficacy will exceed that of…

May 13, 2020

The Sacredness of this Nothingness

May 13, 2020

D. Alan Dean

D. Alan Dean

Studied English literature in the PhD program at Johns Hopkins. I work freelance in publishing, and I currently live in the Balkans.

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