The sacralization (Bare life) of times, an artifact to usurp democracy

Abstract

From the "Homo Sacer: The sovereign power and the naked Life" and then in "Endless Media: Notes on Politics"; Agamben exposes, appealing to ancient Greece, the original difficulty - if you will - of the fact that this civilization did not have a single term to express what we mean by the word LIFE. And this word is deeply linked to sacralization (Bare life), since when it is expressed, it fades or rather, it disappears in its most minimal sense. Sacralization is the end of life, in bare life. Our author (Agamben) says that the terms used by the Greeks were semantically and morphologically different: Zoé expressed the simple fact -continues Agamben- of living common to all living beings, while bios meant the form or way of living typical of an individual or group. This opposition gradually disappeared in modern languages ??without leaving any substantial difference alive. We wonder about the expression form of life, understanding, without detaching ourselves from Agamben, that it refers to the fact that a life that can never be separated from its form is a life in which it is never possible to isolate something like a nude. life. So we propose that once life is reduced to a bare life in priesthood, democracy remains in the hands of political robbery and corruption, which gradually causes its decline as an original popular expression.