Feb 7, 2021 • 8M

Covid 19 and the Failures of Biopower

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Liv Agar
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While the concept of biopower is obviously related to the current pandemic, and I am not the first philosopher to think about its logical connection during their time inside in quarantine, there are many ways in which the extreme prevalence of public health systems in our intimate lives have both confirmed and denied certain elements of Foucault’s idea …

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