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"COVID and Legitimacy: Has Agamben Lost the Plot?" - OaD Ep. 162

Owls at Dawn

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Utilitarianism and the State of Emergency

Mang foco most explicitly points to benthamite utilitarianism as being this form of a bio political kind of governmentality. Mang foco: You can't just uncritically accept actions in in states of emergency, even if you're really convinced that it is an emergency. He says the tradition of the oppressed ches us that the state of emergency in which we live is not the exception, but the rule.

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