On the government of men
Giorgio Agamben, Quodlibet, July 24, 2023
“To be ruled is, at every operation, transaction, movement, to be noted, registered, counted, assessed, stamped, rated, patented, licensed, authorised, apostilled, admonished, forbidden, reformed, amended, corrected by beings who have neither the right nor knowledge nor virtue”.
Giorgio Agamben, Quodlibet, July 24, 2023
“To be ruled is, at every operation, transaction, movement, to be noted, registered, counted, assessed, stamped, rated, patented, licensed, authorised, apostilled, admonished, forbidden, reformed, amended, corrected by beings who have neither the right nor knowledge nor virtue”.
(English translation by I, Robot)
仇英 (Qiú Yīng), The Imperial Examinations, ca. 1540. Courtesy of WikiArt.
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