Political Theology and COVID-19: Agamben’s Critique of Science as a New “Pandemic Religion”

Silva, Guillermo Andrés Duque; Higuera, Cristina del Prado

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“…Covid-19 is in many ways the most modern of morality tales, which 20 See Warren (1995) for a discussion of Habermas's emphasis on the importance of the "public sphere." 21 Agamben has colorfully highlighted the dangers of a "permanent state of exception"; see Silva and Higuera (2021). 22 Azmanova's "pandemic of precarity" describes the combination of massive economic insecurity with social vulnerability during the pandemic, features which she ascribes to the "constitutive logic" of contemporary capitalism in Biale et al (2021).…”

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“…More specifically, if the dilemma consists of protecting the applicant for the termination of pregnancy against COVID-19 viruses, then the theology of public administration will seek to find a way to save the mother's life as a priority (Duque Silva & Del Prado Higuera 2021). The imperative will be to reduce the impact of the pandemic on human lives (Daigle et al 2022;De Beer 2020).…”

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Religious beliefs in public administration and behaviour surrounding abortion decriminalisation in COVID-19 era

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Religious beliefs in public administration and behaviour surrounding abortion decriminalisation in COVID-19 era', HTS Teologiese Studies/Theological Studies 79(1), a8830. https://doi. org/10.4102/hts.v79i1.8830 Contribution:The main contribution of this research is to find the variable effects on abortion in emergency conditions regarding religious beliefs. Given the results, behavioural intentions determine a structural model, but religious beliefs explain the solution. Furthermore, data generalisation is not possible due to the context, sample selection and type of analysis. In the local population, a confirmatory factor analysis should be performed with a probabilistic sample selection.

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State of Exception or the New Normal? An Evaluation of Pandemic Tracking Technologies and Their Implications for Citizenship

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2024

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This article forms a critical examination of how the increased digitalization of daily life, exemplified by pandemic digital technologies of tracking apps and digital Covid-19 passports, affects ethical principles of privacy, subjectivity and autonomy, fundamental in a traditional notion of citizenship. The pandemic crisis has been an example of the increasing use of automated technologies across various domains, where society has become deeply reliant on these technologies. I argue that in ethical terms, the pandemic crisis has moved the borders of what is accepted by governments and citizens and have normalised far-reaching tools of registration, calculation, and surveillance. The pandemic state of exception has necessitated and legalised a temporary suspension of normal civil rights and replaced them with spatial ordering, automated surveillance, and the application of advanced and intrusive digital monitoring tools. Based on an empirical account of tracking apps I discuss the consequences for citizenship based on two theoretical figures: Michel Foucault´s concept of “bio-politics” and the concept of “a state of exception” as theorized by German political philosopher Carl Schmidt. Where traditional concepts of citizenships have focused on individual rights, responsibilities and articipation in civic life, bio-politics emphasizes a management and regulation of populations with less focus on individual agency and more on statistical analysis and control mechanisms. Technologies and discourses of automation are inter-related; digital innovation legitimize and strengthen an adherent automation of political logics, framed as a politics of necessity, where calculative predictions and technological facts leave little room for political subjectivity and values. In the concluding section it is discussed whether the rapid automation catalyzed by the pandemic was a state of emergency, necessitated by a pandemic threat, or rather represents a more profound change, a new normal for citizenship.

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Political Theology and COVID-19: Agamben’s Critique of Science as a New “Pandemic Religion”

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