Life and death are not properly scientific concepts but rather political concepts, which as such acquire a political meaning precisely only through a decision.

The camp is the space that is opened when the state of exception begins to become the rule.

God did not die; he was transformed into money

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.

The coming being is whatever being.

Modern totalitarianism can be defined as the establishment, by means of the state of exception, of a legal civil war that allows for the physical elimination not only of political adversaries but of entire categories of citizens who for some reason cannot be integrated into the political system

Life and death are not properly scientific concepts but rather political concepts, which as such acquire a political meaning precisely only through a decision.