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D. Alan Dean

D. Alan Dean

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Mar 30, 2024

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…

D. Alan Dean

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Feb 27, 2024

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…

About Aaron Bushnell

D. Alan Dean

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Nov 15, 2023

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…

On being furious

D. Alan Dean

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Aug 5, 2023

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

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

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

D. Alan Dean

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Apr 17, 2021

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.

Bare Life and the Vaccine (Giorgio Agamben)

D. Alan Dean

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Apr 2, 2021

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.”

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

D. Alan Dean

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Dec 4, 2020

New Reflections from David Cayley: “Pandemic Revelations”

New on David Cayley’s blog.

New Reflections from David Cayley: “Pandemic Revelations”

D. Alan Dean

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Nov 23, 2020

The Times Ahead

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

D. Alan Dean

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May 23, 2020

Requiem for the Students (Giorgio Agamben)

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

Requiem for the Students (Giorgio Agamben)

D. Alan Dean

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May 13, 2020

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…

The Sacredness of this Nothingness

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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