Summary
Emmanuel Taieb: House of cards - Crime in politics
The game is rigged. The rules are falsified. Welcome to the age of killing reason!
As a good Machiavellian series, House of Cards shows the unstoppable political rise of the anti-hero and tells the restlessness of the deeply corrupt world of politics. It strives to prevent the devastation caused by the corruption of human souls and the appropriation of political resources by the monsters born by the apathy of the people.
Emmanuel Taieb: French political scientist who focuses in his work on violence and its manifestations, from a historical and contemporary perspective. It also deals with the concepts of "biopower" and "thanatomopower", as well as body politics in general. On the other hand, it is aimed at reflecting on events in the public sphere such as propaganda, conspiracy theories and rumours, and lately also on the analysis of political TV series.
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