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Revenge of the Real : Politics for a Post-Pandemic World by Benjamin Bratton (2022, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherVerso Books
ISBN-101839762578
ISBN-139781839762574
eBay Product ID (ePID)24057261162
Product Key Features
Number of Pages192 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameRevenge of the Real : Politics for a Post-Pandemic World
SubjectPublic Health, Popular Culture, Commentary & Opinion
Publication Year2022
TypeTextbook
AuthorBenjamin Bratton
Subject AreaPolitical Science, Social Science, Medical
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.5 in
Item Weight5.6 Oz
Item Length7.8 in
Item Width5.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2023-301624
Dewey Edition23
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal306.2
SynopsisTechnology, Politics, Freedom: How will the coronavirus crisis impact on our everyday lives? COVID-19 exposed the pre-existing conditions of the current global crisis. Many Western states failed to protect their populations, while others were able to suppress the virus only with sweeping social restrictions. In contrast, many Asian countries were able to make much more precise interventions. Everywhere, lockdown transformed everyday life, introducing an epidemiological view of society based on sensing, modeling, and filtering. What lessons are to be learned? The Revenge of the Real envisions a new positive biopolitics that recognizes that governance is literally a matter of life and death. We are grappling with multiple interconnected dilemmas--climate change, pandemics, the tensions between the individual and society--all of which have to be addressed on a planetary scale. Even when separated, we are still enmeshed. Can the world govern itself differently? What models and philosophies are needed? Bratton argues that instead of thinking of biotechnologies as something imposed on society, we must see them as essential to a politics of infrastructure, knowledge, and direct intervention. In this way, we can build a society based on a new rationality of inclusion, care, and prevention., It is time to transform how we live, work, and thrive. As we face the interconnected dilemmas of climate change and pandemics, exacerbated by the tensions between individual and society, we need to rethink biopolitics-matters of life and death-on a planetary scale. The Revenge of the Real sets out an agenda for how we should build a world based on a new rationality of inclusion, care, and foresight. Book jacket., The future of politics after the pandemic COVID-19 exposed the pre-existing conditions of the current global crisis. Many Western states failed to protect their populations, while others were able to suppress the virus only with sweeping social restrictions. In contrast, many Asian countries were able to make much more precise interventions. Everywhere, lockdown transformed everyday life, introducing an epidemiological view of society based on sensing, modeling, and filtering. What lessons are to be learned? The Revenge of the Real envisions a new positive biopolitics that recognizes that governance is literally a matter of life and death. We are grappling with multiple interconnected dilemmas--climate change, pandemics, the tensions between the individual and society--all of which have to be addressed on a planetary scale. Even when separated, we are still enmeshed. Can the world govern itself differently? What models and philosophies are needed? Bratton argues that instead of thinking of biotechnologies as something imposed on society, we must see them as essential to a politics of infrastructure, knowledge, and direct intervention. In this way, we can build a society based on a new rationality of inclusion, care, and prevention.
LC Classification NumberRA651.B73 2022
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