{"product_id":"the-revenge-of-the-real-politics-for-a-post-pandemic-world-9781839762574","title":"The Revenge of the Real: Politics for a Post-Pandemic World","description":"\u003cb\u003eTechnology, Politics, Freedom: How will the coronavirus crisis impact on our everyday lives?\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eCOVID-19 exposed the pre-existing conditions of the current global crisis. Many Western states failed to protect their populations, while others were able to suppress the virus only with sweeping social restrictions. In contrast, many Asian countries were able to make much more precise interventions. Everywhere, lockdown transformed everyday life, introducing an epidemiological view of society based on sensing, modeling, and filtering. What lessons are to be learned? \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \u003ci\u003eThe Revenge of the Real\u003c\/i\u003e envisions a new positive biopolitics that recognizes that governance is literally a matter of life and death. We are grappling with multiple interconnected dilemmas--climate change, pandemics, the tensions between the individual and society--all of which have to be addressed on a planetary scale. Even when separated, we are still enmeshed. Can the world govern itself differently? What models and philosophies are needed? Bratton argues that instead of thinking of biotechnologies as something imposed on society, we must see them as essential to a politics of infrastructure, knowledge, and direct intervention. In this way, we can build a society based on a new rationality of inclusion, care, and prevention.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Verso\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 07\/12\/2022\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9781839762574\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.81lbs","brand":"Benjamin Bratton","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42148849352885,"sku":"9781839762574","price":16.96,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_09ad774e-d7ae-4e5e-afac-10f385037380.jpg?v=1653485636","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-revenge-of-the-real-politics-for-a-post-pandemic-world-9781839762574","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}