Nuda vita come animalità. Un argomento di ontologia sociale contro Giorgio Agamben

In this paper, through the tools of social ontology, we criticize the concept of “anthropological machine” theorized by the italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben. According to Agamben, the “machine” produces a hierarchy (animal-human-citizen), but we argue that his perspective is still anthropocentric. We substitute the dispositif of inclusion/exclusion with a cascade scheme, where every point of the scheme is considered as a social object. In the end, we show how this perspective allows to consider animality as a primary condition of possibility of all other divisions.