BEGINNING: AT THE END OF DEMOCRACY

February 03, 2023 00:47:25
BEGINNING: AT THE END OF DEMOCRACY
Mutant: Dialogues at the End of Democracy
BEGINNING: AT THE END OF DEMOCRACY

Feb 03 2023 | 00:47:25

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Show Notes

It is today impossible to understand the fragility and violence of democracy’s global life without grappling with the appearance of an unprecedented political form on our horizon. It is a form of politics that marks a catastrophic, cruel perversion — a stolid mutation — in the very structure of our democratic faith. Aishwary Kumar calls this new form, poised at the intersection between constitution and cruelty, neodemocracy. Mutant is the recuperation of those words and concepts that we now need more than ever if we are to comprehend this suicidal moment in global politics, and redeem the moral arc of our universe.

 

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