Vesper No. 8 | Vesper | Spring-Summer 2023
Evelina Praino,
Camillo Boano
Zoé
Keywords
Zoe, forest, Agamben, polis
The contribution
considers the relationship between zoé, the natural and unqualified life, and
bķos, political and qualified one, already a form of life, in order to situate
it spatially and, finally, to suggest an indetermination of the two poles in
order to guarante the politicalness of existence. From Uexküll's perspective,
we imagine the objective and unitary world in which the living moves (Umgebung)
as a construction that takes place from the presupposition of several singular
and animal perceptual perspectives, (Umwelt) in combination. Similarly,
the agora, the political place par excellence, addresses a bķos that
immediately implies a zoé, insofar as there is no political that can be
divorced from existing corporeality. Assuming zoé as the hidden, yet
ever-present presupposition of bķos, a theory of the project aware of the
fecundity that hides its shadow, between Umgebung and Umwelt,
will then turn to the Umweg, the deviant and insurgent path, the final
space in which every polarity collapses.
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