Monday, July 24, 2023

The Art of Being Ruled

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”.


(English translation by I, Robot)

仇英 (Qiú Yīng), The Imperial Examinations, ca. 1540. Courtesy of WikiArt.

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