Krystian Woznicki
bbooks · 2020 · 288 pages · English · with 122 full-page color and black-and-white images · €15 · ISBN: 978-3-942214-31-5
Highly complex, thoroughly networked societies are so susceptible in some ‘neuralgic spots’ that a single pinprick is enough to trigger a catastrophic chain reaction. This insecure situation is instrumentalized by neoliberal governmenality: Rather than creating sustainable public structures that would make it easier to avert preventable harm, privatization and technological rationalization are being advanced and prevention is being displaced by preemption —a strategy of turning precarious lifeworlds into ca