Plague Journal, Latent Catastrophe
Biopolitics
becoming immunopolitics…
The latent catastrophe
coursing through and troubling
the early decades of the century.
The catastrophe
is ungovernable
and brings to light all the limits
of neoliberal governance.
It has the tone of the irreversible
and the timbre of the irreparable.
Nothing will be like it was before.
Yesterday’s world appears
as a remote, collapsed world
that has now slipped away.
In the unpoetic and mournful present,
breathing has been set into disarray.
— Excerpt, Immunodemocracy Capitalist Asphyxia
By Donatella Di Cesare p. 116
*Biopolitics is an intersection between human biology and politics. Biopolitics is the administration of life and a locality’s population. To quote Michel Foucault, it is “to ensure, sustain, and multiply life, to put this life in order. — wikipedia
