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Enguerran Maci
Bio: Enguerran Maci is an academic researcher. The author has co-authored 1 publications.
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TL;DR: In this article, deux discours du President francais, celui du 12 mars and theui du 16 mars, are analyzed. And they propose de comprendre quel interet, ou quelle legitimite, peut tirer le pouvoir gouvernemental des mesures de confinement mises en place.
Abstract: La pandemie de Covid-19 peut etre consideree comme une image grossie du « pouvoir sur la vie » qui s’est developpe, selon les analyses de Michel Foucault sur la France, depuis le XVIIe siecle. Inscrit dans ce cadre theorique, cet article se propose de comprendre quel interet, ou quelle legitimite, peut tirer le pouvoir gouvernemental des mesures de confinement mises en place. Pour cela, nous analyserons deux discours du President francais, celui du 12 mars et celui du 16 mars.
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TL;DR: In this paper , the authors analyze the educational inequalities amplified by the pandemics, as well as the remote education effects on students, educators and families, and show that previous achievements in schooling access, quality and equality took steps backwards.
Abstract: Abstract Covid-19 has arisen deep changes in formal Education as a result of a sudden transition from in person to remote Education. Effects in different fields, such as mental health and socioeconomic vulnerability, also need follow up and evaluation. So, this paper aims to analyze the educational inequalities amplified by the pandemics, as well as the remote Education effects on students, educators and families. Its theoretical framework consisted of the reproduction theories and philosophical works on heterotopy, speed and the world and Education digitalization. The results show that previous achievements in schooling access, quality and equality took steps backwards. Mental health and student motivation have suffered negative effects. Digital Education does not seem to keep the same level of outcomes and equality. Therefore, remote Education has implied deep changes in schooling routines and ways of learning, some of them susceptible of negatively affecting students. Remote Education, despite its lower costs and prestigious halo, is to be used cautiously and with parsimony.
TL;DR: The authors argue for an affirmative biopolitics that at once de-securitizes current approaches to our biosocial condition and expands the politics of the human estate to other molar and molecular dimensions.
Abstract: Abstract:In this essay we take stock of the shortcomings, successes, and promises of 'biopolitics' to understand and frame global health crises such as COVID-19. We claim that rather than thinking in terms of a special relationship between Western modernity and biopolitics, it is better to look at a longer and more global history of populations' politics of life and health to situate present and future responses to ecological crises. Normatively, we argue for an affirmative biopolitics, that at once de-securitizes current approaches to our biosocial condition and expands the politics of the human estate to other molar and molecular dimensions.
01 Jan 2022
TL;DR: In this article , a longue durée view of biopolitics is proposed to place the present crisis into a more granular context, arguing that human history is biosocial and biopolitical through and through.
Abstract: The pandemic has produced an explosion of reference to the Foucauldian paradigm of biopolitics with ubiquitous claims that we are living through a truly ‘Foucauldian moment’ (Cot, Le Monde, 2020; Esposito, La Repubblica, 2020). Parallel analyses of the ‘exceptionality’ of the present moment and comparisons to emergency decisions during the totalitarian experiences of the twentieth century (Agamben 2020, 2021) exhibit a similar tendency to think the current crisis only through modern or presentistic eyes. However, pandemics, and their management, long preexist the modern state and the supposed uniqueness of the modern biopolitical constitution. Observing during the pandemic the perturbing return of material artifacts and social technologies that from quarantine to social distancing, from health passport to sanitation of objects and environments, disrupt any easy premodern-modern dichotomy, this chapter suggests a longue durée view of biopolitics to place the present crisis into a more granular context. Even though key biopolitical thinkers tend to cut off modern politics and its crises from a longer and more global view, human history is biosocial and biopolitical through and through. This approach challenges modernism as a form of chronological ethnocentrism that ultimately reproduces a convenient view of the past for the sake of promoting the exceptionality of the present and the role of its critics.