The forms of the representative politics are in crisis. Besieging them are two diamet- rically opposed yet deeply anti-political approaches. On the one hand, the neoliberal technocracy, which grounds the government of the population on knowledge in terms of maximisation of economic value; on the other hand, the populist molarity, which assigns to the fictitious unity of a people - as mythologized in its purity - the seat of an incomprehensible decision. Still, it might be inferred that one very way to revitalize the democratic eidos lies precisely in the power to enhance the complexity and plurality of the social organizations, in the sole attempt to pattern a constant and never definitive composition of diversity.
THE ANTIPOLITICS’ DOUBLE SIEGE. NEOLIBERAL TECHNOCRACY AND POPULIST ILLUSION AS A TEST FOR DEMOCRACY
Carmelo Nigro
2022
Abstract
The forms of the representative politics are in crisis. Besieging them are two diamet- rically opposed yet deeply anti-political approaches. On the one hand, the neoliberal technocracy, which grounds the government of the population on knowledge in terms of maximisation of economic value; on the other hand, the populist molarity, which assigns to the fictitious unity of a people - as mythologized in its purity - the seat of an incomprehensible decision. Still, it might be inferred that one very way to revitalize the democratic eidos lies precisely in the power to enhance the complexity and plurality of the social organizations, in the sole attempt to pattern a constant and never definitive composition of diversity.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
