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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…

14 min readMar 30, 2024

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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…

2 min readFeb 27, 2024

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About Aaron Bushnell

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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…

3 min readNov 15, 2023

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On being furious

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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.

2 min readAug 5, 2023

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

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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.

4 min readApr 17, 2021

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Bare Life and the Vaccine (Giorgio Agamben)

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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.”

4 min readApr 2, 2021

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

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D. Alan Dean

New Reflections from David Cayley: “Pandemic Revelations”

New on David Cayley’s blog.

1 min readDec 4, 2020

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New Reflections from David Cayley: “Pandemic Revelations”

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D. Alan Dean

The Times Ahead

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

3 min readNov 23, 2020

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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…

4 min readMay 23, 2020

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Requiem for the Students (Giorgio Agamben)

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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…

5 min readMay 13, 2020

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The Sacredness of this Nothingness

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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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