Just to fill out the sketch, this is of course the same dynamic that leads Giorgio Agamben, too, to explore a kind of phenomenology of the spectacle, which he construes in terms of ancient theologies of “glory.” In light of the mention of Althusser and Heidegger, Agamben’s framing of his own project needs to be cited: Let us begin this investigation with an attempt to reconstruct the genealogy of a paradigm that has exercised a decisive influence on the development and the global arrangement of Western society, although it has rarely been thematized as such outside the strictly theological field. One of the theses that we shall try to demonstrate is that two broadly speaking political paradigms, antinomical but functionally related to one another, derive from Christian theology: political theology, which founds the transcendence of sovereign power on the single God, and economic theology, which replaces this transcendence with the idea of an oikonomia, conceived as an immanent ordering— domestic and not political in the strict sense—of both divine and human life. Political philosophy and the modern theory of sovereignty derive from the first paradigm; modern biopolitics up to the current triumph of economy and government over every other aspect of social life derive from the second period