Giorgio Agamben, ROAR Magazine
A reflection on the destiny of democracy today here in
Athens is in some way disturbing, because it obliges us to think the end of
democracy in the very place where it was born. As a matter of fact, the
hypothesis I would like to suggest is that the prevailing governmental paradigm
in Europe today is not only non-democratic, but that it cannot either be
considered as political. I will try therefore to show that European society
today is no longer a political society; it is something entirely new, for which
we lack a proper terminology and we have therefore to invent a new strategy.
