Especially for this edition, Joel Geiro, translator of most of Agamben's works into French, wrote the foreword. From the foreword : … For Agamben, aesthetic experiences, Regardless of , Do they appeal to poetry or to the visual arts? There are always political issues[edit] and vice versa, Latest, Considered in the perspective of unhindered functioning of life forms , Economically Unsustainable , It is associated with the desire for a new art of life .. Proceeding to the archaeological examination of any legal term or theological category, Giorgio Agamben always starts , according to the Foucault method, with a thorough philological analysis , In the course of which he refers to the ancients - usually, Greek or Latin sources, because it is in the language that those distinctive features of sovereign power and state of emergency are reflected , which must be disclosed. In the book “What is ‘commanding’?” Giorgio Agamben tries to use the method inverse to that developed by La Boesi in “The Discourse on Voluntary Slavery”... Power does not cease to exist when it is not more or less fully obeyed, but when it ceases to give orders ... it would be possible to give a good description of the supposedly democratic societies in which we live, a simple statement. within these societies, the ontology of command took the place of the ontology of affirmation, not in a clear form imperative, but in a more insidious form of advice, Invitations, Notifications, which are in the name of safety (CM) so that obedience to the order takes the form of cooperation, And often it’s a form of self-indulgence.... » PDF A4 format saved publishing design.