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Common Immunity - Biopolitics in the Age of the Pandemic (Hardcover)
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Common Immunity - Biopolitics in the Age of the Pandemic (Hardcover)
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After two years of global pandemic, it is no surprise that
immunization is now at the center of our experience. From the
medicalization of politics to the disciplining of individuals, from
lockdowns to mass vaccination programs, contemporary societies seem
to be firmly embedded in a syndrome of immunity. To
understand the ambivalent effects of this development, it is
necessary to go back to its modern genesis, when the languages of
law, politics, and medicine began to merge into the biopolitical
regime we have been living under for some time. This regime places
a high priority on immunization and security: no security is more
important than health security. The Covid-19 pandemic has taken the
dynamic of immunization to a new level: for the first time in
history, we see societies seeking to achieve generalized immunity
in their entire populations through vaccination. This allows us to
glimpse the possibility of a “common immunity” that strengthens
the relation between community and immunity. The dramatic tensions
we have experienced in recent years between security and freedom,
norm and exception, power and existence, all refer to the complex
relationship between community and immunity, the decisive features
of which are reconstructed in this book. Building on the
prescient argument originally developed two decades ago
in Immunitas, Roberto Esposito demonstrates in this new book
how the pandemic and our responses to it have brought into sharp
relief the fundamental biopolitical conditions of our contemporary
societies.
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