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What Is an Apparatus? M e rId I An Crossing Aesthetics Werner Hamacher Editor Stanford University Press Stanford California 9 WhAt Is An AppArAtus? and Other Essays Giorgio Agamben Translated by David Kishik and Stefan Pedatella stanford university press stanford, california 2009 Stanford University Press Stanford, California English translation and Translators’ Note © 2009 by the Board of Trustees of the Leland Stanford Junior University. All rights reserved. “What Is an Apparatus?” was originally published in Italian in 2006 under the title Che cos’è un dispositivo? © 2006, Nottetempo. “The Friend” was originally published in Italian in 2007 under the title L’amico © 2007, Nottetempo. “What Is the Contemporary?” was originally published in Ital- ian in 2008 under the title Che cos’è il contemporaneo? © 2008, Nottetempo. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and record- ing, or in any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Stanford University Press. Printed in the United States of America on acid-free, archival-quality paper Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Agamben, Giorgio, 1942– [Essays. English. Selections] What is an apparatus? and other essays / Giorgio Agamben ; translated by David Kishik and Stefan Pedatella. p. cm.—(Meridian, crossing aesthetics) Includes bibliographical references. ISBN 978-0-8047-6229-8 (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN 978-0-8047-6230-4 (pbk. : alk. paper) 1. Power (Philosophy) 2. Knowledge, Theory of. 3. Foucault, Michel, 1926–1984. 4. Friendship. 5. Contemporary, The. I. Title. II. Series: Meridian (Stanford, Calif.) B3611.A42E5 2009 195—dc22 2008043113 Frontispiece image: Detail of Giovanni Serodine, The Apostles Peter and Paul on the Road to Martyrdom (1624–45), oil on cloth. Rome, Palazzo Barberini. Contents Translators’ Note ix § What Is an Apparatus? 1 § The Friend 25 § What Is the Contemporary? 39 Notes 55 Translators’ Note English translations of secondary sources have been amended in order to take into account the au- thor’s sometimes distinctive Italian translations. Man- delstam’s poem on pages 42–43 was translated from the Russian by Jane Mikkelson. We would like to thank Giorgio Agamben for his generous assistance, which has improved the grace and accuracy of our translation.
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