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On Giorgio Agamben's State of Exception (2005).
How did a darling of the left during the War on Terror become a resource for the right during Covid? Is Agamben right to blur the boundary between fascism and liberal democracy? And if we are in a 'permanent state of exception', what is the right response?
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Other links:
- The Crisis of the Crisis: Is Covid politics the real emergency?, Geoff Shullenberger, The New Atlantis