The Biopolitical Turn of the Post-Covid World. Leftist and Neoliberal Insights of Puzzling Biopolitics
Abstract :
As the 21st
century became shaped by the matters of public health, the
Covid-19 pandemic revealed that it is a trap to believe that we have to choose between the
medicalisation of politics and the politicisation of medicine. My thesis is that models of good
governance in the post-pandemic world must be shaped by leftist principles, values and practices,
in order to ensure not the reopening, but the reconstruction of public life, which needs more
than ever overcoming social inequalities and political polarisations, whereas liberal principles
should be implemented in order to fix standards of economic performance and efficiency after
applying mechanism of recovery. Governments as well as electoral spheres are reticent to
biopolitical incursions, historically associated with panoptic systems. I claim that it is time to
plead for positivising biopolitics as political humanism. My research will expose twelve themes
for disseminating biopolitics as political humanism, focused on sensitive key-domains such as
labour, social cohesion, security, infodemia, domestic life and good governance.