“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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