Category: Biopolitics

One of the obstacles to understanding the managed and apparently deliberate destruction of the small and medium-sized businesses that in the UK have decreased in number by half a million since 2020, and the removal of our national sovereignty on the justification of saving us from, by turns, a health crisis, an environmental crisis, an … Continue reading The Western Oligarchy

As the restrictions and obligations of biosecurity have mostly but not entirely been lifted since March 2022 — while still being suspended over our necks like the axe of the fasces — their replacement by their equally fundamentalist environmental equivalents has shown the arbitrariness of the crises on which the Global Biosecurity State is being … Continue reading The Politics of Environmental Fundamentalism

The past three years have exposed the structural flaw in Western democracy with more disastrous consequences for its populations than at any time in recent history. It’s generally known that democracy, from the Ancient Greek dēmokratia, means ‘rule by the people’; but it is perhaps less widely known that the fifth-century city-state of Athens on … Continue reading Twenty Questions for Our Democracy

The New Normal: Selected Articles on the UK Biosecurity State, Vol. 2 — February 2023 by Simon Elmer Hardback: £30.00 Paperback: £20.00 E-book: £10.00 (please specify that you are paying for a copy of this book, and check your junkmail for the return email with the e-book) Look Inside Description Everything we’ve been told about … Continue reading The New Normal: Selected Articles on the UK Biosecurity State, Volume 2

Virtue and Terror: Selected Articles on the UK Biosecurity State, Vol. 1 — February, 2023 by Simon Elmer Hardback: £30.00 Paperback: £20.00 E-book: £10.00 (please specify that you are paying for a copy of this book, and check your junkmail for the return email with the e-book) Look Inside Description Originally appearing between April 2020 … Continue reading Virtue and Terror: Selected Articles on the UK Biosecurity State, Volume 1

‘The fear of concentration camps and the resulting insight into the nature of total domination might serve to invalidate all obsolete political differentiations from Right to Left and to introduce beside and above them the politically most important yardstick for judging events in our time, namely: whether they serve totalitarian domination or not.’ — Hannah … Continue reading 8. The Camp as Biopolitical Paradigm of the State (The Road to Fascism: For a Critique of the Global Biosecurity State)

‘English Fascism, when it arrives, is likely to be of a sedate and subtle kind (presumably, at any rate at first, it won’t be called Fascism). It is quite easy to imagine a middle-class crushed down to the worst depths of poverty and still remaining bitterly anti-working class in sentiment; this being, of course, a … Continue reading 7. Fascism, Neoliberalism and the Left (The Road to Fascism: For a Critique of the Global Biosecurity State)