Is Pandemic-enabled Government Action Here to Stay?
These quotes have been selected from Abraham Samuel et al’s article, “Emerging Governmentality and Biopolitics of COVID-19 in India,” that examines how governments exercise extraordinary powers to enforce discipline during unprecedented times.
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References:
- Foucault, Michel (1995): Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, New York: Vintage Books, Random House.
- Agamben, Giorgio (2020): “Invention of an Epidemic,” European Journal of Psychoanalysis Corona Virus and Philosophers, https://www.journal-psychoanalysis.eu/coronavirus-and-philosophers.
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