Giorgio Agamben's 'Quando la casa brucia' Published by Giometti & Antonello

Giorgio Agamben's new pamphlet 'Quando la casa brucia' (When the House Burns) has been published by Giometti & Antonello in Macerata as the eighth volume of the 'Scienza' series. The title essay, first posted on quodlibet.it on October 5, 2020, critiques biopolitical control, digital surveillance, and the state of emergency used to manipulate populations. Agamben draws on Walter Benjamin, Aristotle, Alexander of Aphrodisias, and Hannah Arendt to explore concepts of threshold, exteriority, and suspended thought. The book is structured in four sections: 34 paragraphs on the burning house, 11 on the threshold, 16 letters of the Hebrew alphabet on language, and 9 sections on testimony and truth. The total number of sections is 7, symbolizing the union of triad and tetrad. Carlo Scarpa's intervention for the IUAV entrance is referenced. The volume costs €10 and has 96 pages.