The Politics of Immunity: Security and the Policing of Bodies Neocleous Mark
The violence and destruction hiding behind the obsession with immunityOur contemporary political condition is obsessed with immunity. The immunity of bodies and the body politic; personal immunity and…
Specifikacia The Politics of Immunity: Security and the Policing of Bodies Neocleous Mark
The violence and destruction hiding behind the obsession with immunityOur contemporary political condition is obsessed with immunity. The immunity of bodies and the body politic; personal immunity and herd immunity; how to immunize the social system against breakdown. The obsession intensifies with every new crisis and the mobilization of yet more powers of war and police, from quarantine to border closures and from vaccination certificates to immunological surveillance.Engaging four key concepts with enormous cultural weight - Cell, Self, System and Sovereignty - Politics of Immunity moves from philosophical biology to intellectual history and from critical theory to psychoanalysis to expose the politics underpinning the way immunity is imagined. At the heart of this imagination is the way security has come to dominate the whole realm of human experience.
The End of Policing