Epidemie Als Politiek by Giorgio Agamben
A critical examination arguing that responses to the COVID-19 pandemic were used to institute a lasting state of exception that expands sovereign power and reduces citizens to ‘bare life.’ It claims that emergency public-health measures and the rhetoric of crisis normalized unprecedented restrictions on movement, assembly and ritual, subordinating political existence to biological survival and eroding legal and democratic norms. The work questions the unquestioned authority of scientific and political experts and warns of the long-term consequences for freedom, community and civic life.
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- 2020
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