tagged ‘Walter Benjamin’

By Photo d’identité sans auteur, 1928 – Akademie der Künste, Berlin – Walter Benjamin Archiv, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17162035

In the Year of Our Lord: Reading Coronavirus as Divine Violence

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At the dawn of every history aimed at ensuring security and making peace with death, it shall be written: ‘In the beginning, there was the word’. At the dawn of every new temporal order, however, it shall be written: ‘In the beginning, there was violence’. Giorgio Agamben If one were searching for an aphorism that […]