ABSTRACT
In this addendum I look at the role of the individuals in a historico-political transition with regard to the one they had during the passage from the pre-modern forms of political power to the modern state. In particular, in the appendix, I consider the Carnival and other popular feasts as described by Mikhail Bakhtin as peculiar moments in which the political community was able to transgress the historical fixedness of their age and compare them with examples of contemporary grotesque humour in order to understand how this form of political action could be successful in the transition defined throughout the book. The title is obviously a reference to Agamben’s influential book The Coming Community.
