- Lived:
- Born 1942 · Rome; long based in Italy, teaching across Europe
- Tradition:
- Continental philosophy; biopolitics, political theology, aesthetics
- The Big Idea:
- Modern politics runs on a hidden machine — the power to suspend the law and reduce people to "bare life" — and the camp, not the city, is where that machine shows itself most clearly.
- In their words:
- "The camp is the nomos of the modern."
- If you remember one thing:
- The emergency measure that is supposed to be temporary has a habit of becoming permanent — and Agamben spent sixty years watching for exactly that.