The future of politics after the pandemic
COVID-19 exposed
the pre-existing conditions of the current global crisis. Many Western
states failed to protect their populations, while others were able to
suppress the virus only with sweeping social restrictions. In contrast,
many Asian countries were able to make much more precise interventions.
Everywhere, lockdown transformed everyday life, introducing an
epidemiological view of society based on sensing, modeling, and
filtering. What lessons are to be learned?
The Revenge of the Real
envisions a new positive biopolitics that recognizes that governance is
literally a matter of life and death. We are grappling with multiple
interconnected dilemmas—climate change, pandemics, the tensions between
the individual and society—all of which have to be addressed on a
planetary scale. Even when separated, we are still enmeshed. Can the
world govern itself differently? What models and philosophies are
needed? Bratton argues that instead of thinking of biotechnologies as
something imposed on society, we must see them as essential to a
politics of infrastructure, knowledge, and direct intervention. In this
way, we can build a society based on a new rationality of inclusion,
care, and prevention.
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