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 | | Biopower’s supreme ambition is to produce, in a human body, the absolute separation of the living and the speaking being, zo_ and bios, the inhuman and the human – survival (1999: 155-6). |
 | | Having argued for a fundamental connection between the animal and the human, within politics, science and the divine, Agamben turns attention to another dimension of the relation, that in turn reveals a distinction between the being in the world of the animal and that of the human. |
 | | The tick lives out a short life cycle that comprises almost wholly an intimate relationship with these simple elements: "The tick is this relationship; she lives only in it and for it" (Agamben, 2004: 47). |
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