For a theory of destituent power, a conference by Giorgio AGAMBEN: “As you know, the formula ‘for security reasons’ functions today in any domain, from everyday life to international conflicts, as a password in order to impose measures that the people have no reason to accept. I will try to show that the real purpose of the security measures is not, as it is currently assumed, to prevent dangers, troubles or even catastrophes. (…) It is easy to imagine the dangers represented by a power that could have at its disposal the unlimited biometric and genetic information of all its citizens. With such a power at hand, the extermination of the Jews (…) would have been total and incredibly swift. (…) The growing extension to citizens of technologies which were conceived for criminals has inevitably consequences on the political identity of the citizen. For the first time in the history of humanity, identity is no longer a function of the social personality and its recognition by others, but rather a function of biological data. (…) Here again an apparatus that had been conceived for the prisons has been extended to public places. But it is evident that a video recorded place is no more an agora and becomes (…) a zone of indifference between the prison and the forum. (…) The Security State (…) should make us worry about the dangers t involves for democracy, because in it political life has become impossible, while democracy means precisely the possibility of a political life”.
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