Liminal Politics in the New Age of Disease: Technocratic Mimetism (Contemporary Liminality)

Synopsis

Liminal Politics in the New Age of Disease explores the phenomenon of ‘liminal politics’: an open-ended ‘state of exception’ in which normal rules no longer apply, and things which were previously unimaginable become possible – even appearing remarkably quickly to represent a ‘new normal’. With attention to the emergency measures introduced to counter the spread of Covid-19, it shows how the emergency suspension of democratic accountability, ordinary life and civil liberties, while accidental, can lend itself to orchestration and exploitation for the purpose of political gain by ‘trickster’ or ‘parasitic’ figures. An examination of the cloning of political responses from jurisdiction to jurisdiction, with little consideration of their rational justification or local context, this volume interrogates the underlying dynamics of a global technological mimetism, as novel technocratic interventions are repeated and the way is opened for new technologies to reorganise social life in a manner that threatens the disintegration of its existing patterns. As such, it will appeal to scholars and students of sociology, social theory and anthropological theory with interests in political expediency and the transformation of social life.

Copyright:

2023

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

Book Size:

230 Pages

ISBN-13:

9781000804362

Related ISBNs:

9781003265344, 9781032201900, 9781032208183

Publisher:

Taylor and Francis

Date of Addition:

04/27/23

Copyrighted By:

selection and editorial matter, Agnes Horvath and Paul O’Connor, individual chapters, the contributors

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

Nonfiction, Sociology

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Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Agnes Horvath

Edited by:

Paul O'Connor