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Bratton, Benjamin

 
9781839762567: The Revenge of the Real: Politics for a Post-Pandemic World
Couverture rigide
ISBN 10 : 183976256X ISBN 13 : 9781839762567
Editeur : Verso Books, 2021

Synopsis

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.

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À propos de l'auteur

Benjamin Bratton is Professor of Visual Arts the University of California, San Diego. He is Program Director of The Terraforming think-tank at Strelka Institute of Media, Architecture and Design in Moscow. He is the author of several books, including The Stack which develops a comprehensive political philosophy of planetary-scale computation. See bratton.info

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Éditeur
Verso Books
Date d'édition
2021
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
183976256X
ISBN 13 
9781839762567
Reliure
Relié
Nombre de pages
208
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