ABSTRACT

In this paper, I argue that the Covid-19 pandemic has made it more evident that the question of survival plays a structural role in the politics of globalisation. Like a virus that feeds off living cells without producing new ones, globalisation builds on blurring the previously differentiated spaces of the state, the market, war, and nature. The pandemic has exacerbated the instability that results from this blurring of the political spaces of modernity. Amidst this instability, survival has become a prevailing and yet liminal condition for the appearance of politics itself. Rather than interpreting this condition as a biopolitical reduction of political life to mere life, as Giorgio Agamben or Roberto Esposito have done, my theorisation claims that global survival has produced a hyperpoliticization of all events and acts of social life. I illustrate these logics with the political centrality of life in the Black Lives Matter movement.

摘要

在本文中，我认为 Covid-19 大流行使生存问题在全球化政治中发挥结构性作用变得更加明显。就像病毒以活细胞为食而不产生新细胞一样，全球化建立在模糊国家、市场、战争和自然之前分化的空间的基础上。大流行加剧了由于现代性政治空间的模糊而导致的不稳定。在这种不稳定性中，生存已成为政治本身出现的普遍但又具有限制性的条件。我的理论不是像乔治·阿甘本或罗伯托·埃斯波西托那样将这种情况解释为政治生活从生命政治上还原为纯粹的生活，而是声称全球生存导致了所有社会生活事件和行为的过度政治化。