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Giorgio Agamben’s Coronavirus Cluelessness
The Italian philosopher’s interventions are symptomatic of theory’s collapse into paranoia
The unprecedented uncertainty amid the coronavirus pandemic has decimated our carefully laid plans and unsettled our minds at equal pace.
- Anastasia Berg
- The Chronicle of Higher Education
Anxiety manifests in an utter inability to concentrate; our efforts to “work from home” are largely consumed by staring blankly at Twitter, the homepages of The…
These circumstances call not for more epidemiological modeling, we think, but for philosophy.
The question — “What should I do?”— is, after all, a variant of the first philosophical question, namely, how…