Democracy in the age of polycrisis with Adam Tooze
Mark Leonard's World in 30 Minutes
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The Biopolitical Regime of the Spanish Flu
In your household, it definitely felt like multiple crises at once. Unemployment, interruption of education, psychological havoc caused by shuffling around or read through the lens of the epidemic. The other thing that happened during that kind of moment was everyone went back to the Spanish flu and they discovered that more people died in the Spanish flu than in the first world war. So there's something very distinctive about a biopolitical regime like the one we're currently in, in which daddy isn't possible.
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