Open AccessHow to desire control
Author(s) -
Sudipto Sanyal
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
bulletin of the "transilvania" university of braşov. series iv, philology and cultural studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2066-7698
pISSN - 2066-768X
DOI - 10.31926/but.pcs.2020.62.13.2.2
Subject(s) - body politic , pandemic , confusion , government (linguistics) , subject (documents) , covid-19 , the arts , state (computer science) , prime minister , political science , sociology , cover (algebra) , gender studies , politics , law , disease , psychology , medicine , psychoanalysis , philosophy , linguistics , mechanical engineering , pathology , algorithm , library science , computer science , infectious disease (medical specialty) , engineering
"The COVID-19 pandemic has resulted in a once-in-a-generation unfolding of theideas of the normal and the pathological into one another in a public andspectacular way. The following essay attempts to examine this confusion of therelationship between health and disease in the body politic through specialreference to a nationally televised address by the Indian Prime Minister at theoutbreak of the pandemic. It interrogates the ways in which the pandemic hasfunctioned as a cover for extending a state of exception through the arts ofgovernment. It also glimpses at the ways in which the idea of the citizen has beeninverted to create a governmentalized subject desiring to be controlled."