Re: <nettime> Bruno Latour: The health crisis is leading us to prepare for climate

[Sam Dwyer <hellosamdwyer@gmail.com>]

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
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> On Apr 3, 2020, at 4:41 AM, nettime's avid reader <nettime@kein.org> wrote:
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> (Almost) auto-translated from:
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> https://antinomie.it/index.php/2020/04/01/la-crisi-sanitaria-ci-induce-a-prepararci-al-cambiamento-climatico/
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> The health crisis is leading us to prepare for climate change
> by Bruno Latour



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