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Liminal Politics in the New Age of Disease - Technocratic Mimetism (Hardcover)
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Liminal Politics in the New Age of Disease - Technocratic Mimetism (Hardcover)
Series: Contemporary Liminality
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Liminal Politics in the New Age of Disease explores the phenomenon
of 'liminal politics': an open-ended 'state of exception' in which
normal rules no longer apply, and things which were previously
unimaginable become possible - even appearing remarkably quickly to
represent a 'new normal'. With attention to the emergency measures
introduced to counter the spread of Covid-19, it shows how the
emergency suspension of democratic accountability, ordinary life
and civil liberties, while accidental, can lend itself to
orchestration and exploitation for the purpose of political gain by
'trickster' or 'parasitic' figures. An examination of the cloning
of political responses from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, with
little consideration of their rational justification or local
context, this volume interrogates the underlying dynamics of a
global technological mimetism, as novel technocratic interventions
are repeated and the way is opened for new technologies to
reorganise social life in a manner that threatens the
disintegration of its existing patterns. As such, it will appeal to
scholars and students of sociology, social theory and
anthropological theory with interests in political expediency and
the transformation of social life.
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