Philipp Sarasin on Foucault and the Coronavirus Pandemic
March 31, 2020 CC BY 4.0 |
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Keywords: biopolitics | coronavirus | discipline | freedom | governmentality
"Management of freedom" in times of Corona: our board member Philipp Sarasin reflects on the current situation along Foucauldian lines and comes to different conclusions than the often misread concept of biopolitics might suggest. Agree or disagree, but read in German in Geschichte der Gegenwart or in English in our essay section!