I am neither a virologist nor a doctor, and in the article in question, which dates back to a month ago, I was simply quoting verbatim what was then the opinion of the Italian National Research Center. In view of the number of victims and the rapid spread of the virus, especially in Italy, do you regret these words? In a text published by “Il Manifesto”, you wrote that the global pandemic of Covid-19 was “a supposed epidemic”, nothing more than “a kind of flu”. In an interview with Le Monde, he analyzes “the extremely serious ethical and political consequences” of the security measures implemented to curb the pandemic.
Giorgio Agamben, a leading intellectual of the “ non-governable “ movement, published an article in the newspaper Il Manifesto (“Coronavirus and a state of exception”, February 26) which drew criticism because, based on the Italian health data of the time, it focused on the defense of public freedoms by minimizing the extent of the epidemic. In the wake of Michel Foucault, but also of Walter Benjamin and Hannah Arendt, he has conducted a series of archaeological investigations of the notions of “dispositif “ and “ command “, and has elaborated the concepts of “ idleness “, “ form of life “ or “ inactive power “. Internationally renowned Italian philosopher, Giorgio Agamben has notably elaborated the concept of “state of exception” as a paradigm of government in his great work of political philosophy Homo Sacer (Seuil, 1997–2005). Translated by Lena Bloch, French original here. In an interview with “Le Monde”, the Italian philosopher criticizes the implementation of extraordinary security measures assuming that life must be suspended to protect it.
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