Who decides?
The eternal question of politics
“Sovereign is he who decides on the exception” is the opening line to Carl Schmitt’s Political Theology. This intriguing yet decisive line is the opening to exploring a topic that defines politics today and perhaps always has done: who decides? Questioning who decides drives both our healthiest and most dysfunctional discourses that challenge and enabl…
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