Baudrillard claimed ”the Iraq War did not take place.“ Now another European “theorist,” Giorgio Agamben, theorises himself into bald-faced denialism, claiming, that coronavirus is "invented," and no worse than a bad flu. https://www.quodlibet.it/giorgio-agamben-l-invenzione-di-un-epidemia …
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(As for myself, I thank the stars for granting me the prudence not to have made public every ill-formed question and half-cocked doubt I've had about coronavirus over the past few months.)
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Between Agamben's Trumpian doubt-mongering, and Žižek's provision of blog content to the RT website, honestly at this point whoever's left in the vanguard of continental philosophy should just start hawking men's vitamin supplements.
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Here's Agamben's text translated into English (scroll down): http://www.journal-psychoanalysis.eu/coronavirus-and-philosophers/?fbclid=IwAR0kPADavW-wGIPoihsIw0-sxMq8pgos8HEh2ZDbKfMqEkg-rJwjcrgwEJ4 …
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