2020 has been marked by the vivid resurgence of an ancient, fundamental disjuncture, even a conflict, between two discourses: one of love or desire for the Good, the other of irrational fear instilled by tyrants. The opposition between these two ancestral, even paradigmatic discourses has been radicalized around the covid-19…
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