*Les Misérables* Aria
Giorgio Agamben, We Refugees
For this reason – that is, inasmuch as the refugee unhinges the old trinity of state/nation/teritory – this apparently marginal figure deserves rather to be considered the central figure of our political history. (...) It is only in a land where the spaces of states will have been perforated and topologically deformed, and the citizen will have learned himself to aknowledge the refugee that he himself is, that man’s political survival today is imaginable
