Crying for repression: populist and democratic biopolitics in times of COVID-19
Titel: | Crying for repression: populist and democratic biopolitics in times of COVID-19 |
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Veröffentlicht: | Freiburg : Universität, 2022 |
Umfang: | 1 Online-Ressource |
Format: | E-Book |
Sprache: | Englisch |
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Abstract: We live in very Foucauldian times, as the many think-pieces published on biopolitics and COVID-19 show. Yet what is remarkable - biopolitically - about the current situation has gone largely unnoticed: We are witnessing a new form of biopolitics today that could be termed populist biopolitics. Awareness of this populist biopolitics helps illuminate what is needed today: democratic biopolitics |
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