it’s really WEIRD that trump, an extreme authoritarian, hasn’t jumped on this opportunity to be a big statist dictator — it’s really what people are craving, why they love cuomo so much — instead he’s been doing rather the opposite, shoveling responsibility and authority away. Why?
Guaranteeing security is the core promise of the state — things like producing an abundance of ventilators or generic medications are an easy win — there’s nothing Smart required, you just have to do it. So, why not ? This refusal to act — as a STATE — is so pronounced, so thorough... the push towards making it specific little-states faults is totally unique in the postwar era... in a time of crisis it’s specifically a radically anti federalist position... and it’s difficult to see it ending well. It’s a radically collapsed vision of the states responsibility, and in this sense, I would argue that to the extent that people have begun to die because of this ideology, we can consider ourselves living in a collapsed state. RIP. -Sam Dwyer #860.248.1155 > On Apr 3, 2020, at 4:41 AM, nettime's avid reader <nett...@kein.org> wrote: > > > (Almost) auto-translated from: > > https://antinomie.it/index.php/2020/04/01/la-crisi-sanitaria-ci-induce-a-prepararci-al-cambiamento-climatico/ > > The health crisis is leading us to prepare for climate change > by Bruno Latour # distributed via <nettime>: no commercial use without permission # <nettime> is a moderated mailing list for net criticism, # collaborative text filtering and cultural politics of the nets # more info: http://mx.kein.org/mailman/listinfo/nettime-l # archive: http://www.nettime.org contact: nett...@kein.org # @nettime_bot tweets mail w/ sender unless #ANON is in Subject:
