RT @nick_routledge: @giantgio An aside. The first 'philosophical voice' I ran across speaking to COVID-19 politicization, issued through the Paris Institute for Critical Thinking. The @ParisCritical X account was suspended soon thereafter. Cayley, Illich's biographer, and Agamben-alert, was lucid, fast, too.
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The medicalization of politics and the politicization of medicine. ‘Mightn’t it be time to talk?’ t.co/9yJuNb6qz1 It has been noted that the COVID-19 pandemic is a biopolitical dream (or rather nightmare) come true - and in fact Foucault's poignant analyses of the intertwined evolution of politics and medicine in modernity have been evoked from the very beginning... The “political dream of the plague” is the marvelous moment when political power is exercised to the full. This Post is from a suspended account. Learn more
'Mightn’t it be time to talk?' The Canadian journalist-philosopher David Cayley on Covid, Agamben, Illich, medical religion and the call for a new reformation. davidcayley.com/blog/2020/12/3/pandemic-revelations-1
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