The problem facing society today, which is only superficially defined in terms of ‘postdemocracy’ or exorcised as populism, is not the limits or defects of democracy, but, on the contrary, its completion in the figure of its opposite. One must be aware that the horizon has profoundly and irreversibly changed. At this point, what is at stake is no longer a simple reform of society’s institutions; rather, we are faced with a socio-cultural transformation that runs much deeper than our entire political lexicon. Far from opposing the new significance assumed by biological life under the illusion of restoring our ancient vocabulary, we must place ourselves at the centre of political action – sufficiently responding to the pressing demands that come, to the dilemmas that unfold, to the needs that provoke ever greater masses of men and women – within the borders of the West or with those pressing to gain entry.

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后民主与生物政治

当今社会所面临的问题，仅从“后民主”或被驱逐为民粹主义表面上来定义，它不是民主的局限或缺陷，而是相反，民主的完成是相反的。必须意识到，视野已经发生了深刻而不可逆的变化。在这一点上，紧要关头不再是对社会制度的简单改革。相反，我们面临的社会文化变革比我们整个政治词典要深得多。在恢复我们古老的词汇的幻觉下，我们绝不能反对生物生命所赋予的新的意义，而必须将自己置于政治行动的中心-充分应对紧迫的要求，所面临的困境，