By using the example of the tick, “Agamben presents [the tick] as a sort of third term between or beyond […] the system of the anthropological machine” (Attell, 2015, p. 175), namely with the structures of separation and domination of the animal sphere. I wish to focus on a different critical remark which concerns the analogy between the tick and boredom. There are at least two main points that deserve thorough discussion but that I can only hint at here: a) Is it possible to use boredom as a middle term between the human and the animal condition? b) Can the anthropological phenomenon «boredom» be reduced to its description offered by Heidegger and Agamben?
Giorgio Agamben: the political meaning of Uexküll's "sleeping tick",
mazzeo marco
2020-01-01
Abstract
By using the example of the tick, “Agamben presents [the tick] as a sort of third term between or beyond […] the system of the anthropological machine” (Attell, 2015, p. 175), namely with the structures of separation and domination of the animal sphere. I wish to focus on a different critical remark which concerns the analogy between the tick and boredom. There are at least two main points that deserve thorough discussion but that I can only hint at here: a) Is it possible to use boredom as a middle term between the human and the animal condition? b) Can the anthropological phenomenon «boredom» be reduced to its description offered by Heidegger and Agamben?I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
