Agamben lecture: Power and the Glory

Here is the new video going around of Giorgio Agamben’s January 2007 lecture “The Power and the Glory.”

Some analysis here:

Bio-gay

I always felt that making the argument that you were biologically gay was a mistake.

Paean

The Wall Street Journal is not one to miss an opportunity to stereotype and scare-monger.

Why?

Just to complain about your readings?

I’m currently reading “Discipline and Punish” for class. I also need to do like a two-minute discussion of the book, and I intend to rhetorically defecate on Foucault’s literary legacy.