N | NEGLECT & NEODEMOCRACY

Episode 4 August 26, 2023 00:43:47
N | NEGLECT & NEODEMOCRACY
Mutant: Dialogues at the End of Democracy
N | NEGLECT & NEODEMOCRACY

Aug 26 2023 | 00:43:47

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Show Notes

How do ordinary citizens become the foot soldiers, the automatons, the purveyors of evil? How does barbaric cruelty become a civic norm? In her controversial classic Eichmann in Jerusalem, Hannah Arendt gives us a way to understand this pervasive degeneration of our time. She calls it the banality of evil. And it is this banality given democratic license; this turning of neglect into a legitimate doctrine of governance; this virtuosity of brutalism without bloodshed, that Aishwary Kumar identifies as a new mutation in the structure of liberal democracy. Neodemocracy is this political mutant, born at the intersection of cruelty and the constitution.

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