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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Born 22 April 1942, Agamben built a body of thought drawing on Aristotle, Roman law, Heidegger, Benjamin, and Carl Schmitt, interrogating how legal authority carves out spaces where normal rights vanish. His multi-volume Homo Sacer project, beginning with Sovereign Power and Bare Life in 1995 and continuing through State of Exception (2003), The Kingdom and the Glory (2007), and The Use of Bodies (2014), positioned him as one of continental philosophy's most influential voices, debated across political theory, jurisprudence, anthropology, and the humanities. He taught at universities in Verona, Macerata, Palermo, and Venice, and lectured widely across two continents. In 2004 he refused U.S. entry over biometric fingerprinting, which he compared to totalitarian bodily registration. During the COVID-19 pandemic his critiques of Italian lockdowns and vaccine passes as expansions of the state of exception drew sharp rebuke from public health experts and philosophers who saw a misreading of emergency, though some defended the consistency of his position.