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Article: "The theological materials of modernity (On Giorgio Agamben)".(Critical essay)
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- Italica
- Article date:
- December 22, 2008
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"[...] si tratta [...] di una specie di regressione archeologica [...] Come se tornare indietro fosse per me il solo modo di aprirmi una strada, di rendermi il pensiero nuovamente possibile" (A gamben "Intervista" 41).
The thought that took possession of Giorgio Agamben's mind when viewing Vanessa Beercroft's performance in Berlin ("nothing but dressed urban people, looking at naked urban people") was that of the nudity of the resurrected waiting for the Last Judgment. Agamben carries the idea even further by suggesting that "[T]he dressed people circling around them were, without knowing it, servants in some celestial administration, who were preparing to lead ...