Crying for Repression: Populist and Democratic Biopolitics in Times of COVID-19

Critical Legal Thinking 3 (2020)
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Abstract

We live in very Foucauldian times, as the many think-pieces published on biopolitics and COVID-19 show. Yet what is remarkable—biopolitically—about the current situation has gone largely unnoticed: We are witnessing a new form of biopolitics today that could be termed populist biopolitics. Awareness of this populist biopolitics helps illuminate what is needed today: democratic biopolitics.

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Karsten Schubert
Humboldt University, Berlin

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