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One day humanity will play with law just as children play with disused objects, not in order to restore them to their canonical use but to free them from it for good.

— Giorgio Agamben State of Exception (2005)

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In the eyes of authority – and maybe rightly so – nothing looks more like a terrorist than the ordinary man.

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Remembrance is neither what happened nor what did not happen but, rather, their potentialization, their becoming possible once again.

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[E]ase names perfectly that "free use of the proper" that, according to an expression of Friedrich Hölderlin's, is "the most difficult task."

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