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In a situation where state and society become identical, writes Schmitt, ‘it is no longer possible to distinguish between questions which are political – which, as such, concern the state – and questions which are social and therefore non-political’. When everything is political, there is nothing outside the state.
The Ungovernable Society
Grégoire Chamayou
Until Kapp’s book, however, these negative externalities had been considered as a peripheral problem, a minor aberration in economic theory. He showed on the contrary that the discharge of social costs was a general phenomenon, consubstantial with a mode of decision with ‘a built-in tendency to disregard those negative effects (e.g., air and water pollution) which are “external” to the decision-making unit’. This had radical theoretical implications, because __as neither company accounting nor prices in general are really able to record the ‘destructive off-market effects’ shifted onto the social and natural environment, ‘the price indicators are not only imperfect and incomplete; they are misleading’.__
The Ungovernable Society
Grégoire Chamayou
our individual lives are shaped by more than new technologies and the new demands they make of us at our jobs. Unprecedented forms and amounts of debt put economic pressures on families that profoundly shape life histories, disrupting socialization patterns while generating chronic deficits in mental and physical health. Meanwhile, advances in biomedical technology and an increasingly unwieldy health care system put unprecedented decision-making demands on already sick individuals, who must navigate ever-shifting diagnostic categories, treatment options, and the complexity of the insurance industries, not to mention the new and overwhelming universe of medical information on the Internet. Communications technologies enable expansive social networking opportunities that profoundly alter identity formation and decision-making patterns. New computer technologies are fueling expansions in bureaucratic apparatuses and measurement infrastructures, such as standardized tests, tax forms, and Facebook accounts, which are fragmenting our identities and leaving us overwhelmed, self-consciously surveilled, and confused about what is true and who to trust. Simply put, __the construction of a continuous and coherent life-project is more demanding than it has ever been.__
Education in a Time Between Worlds
Zachary Stein
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