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Those who are truly contemporary are those who neither perfectly coincide with their time nor adapt to its demands... Contemporariness, then, is that relationship with time that adheres to it through a disconnection.

~Giorgio Agamben

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The thought of security bears within it an essential risk. A state which has security as its sole task and source of legitimacy is a fragile organism; it can always be provoked by terrorism to become more terroristic.

~Giorgio Agamben

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Biography

Nationality: Italian

Type: Philosopher

Born: April 22nd, 1942

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