At the hospital, a wounded Mac is lying on a guerney in a corridor, heavily sedated and awaiting surgery, when Mac hears cries coming from a nearby room. Mac staggers towards the cries and sees two masked orderlies smothering a man with a pillow.
Mac tries to stop them, but he is groggy and has lost a lot of blood. When Mac awakens from surgery, there are no dead bodies which support his hazy memories. Hospital personnel try to convince him and Sally that he dreamt or hallucinated the entire incident.
Mac stubbornly leaves the hospital and he and Enright continue investigating. A fresh look at Trigamundo's note puts a whole new light on the case Mac, Enright and numerous San Francisco cops are on a stakeout outside a drug dealer's apartment building, waiting for the dealer's connection to arrive. When the contact doesn't show, Mac orders the arrest of the dealer anyway. The dealer makes a run for it through the cellar of an adjacent building, hoping to emerge through a third building without being spotted. Enright, tipped off by Mac, runs to the third building alone, with Mac chasing him for his own safety.
The drug dealer fires on Enright -- and Mac takes the bullet.
It cannot be one or the other; it is both. Whether it is one or the other depends on dosage, context, receptivity of the body to the toxin, and so forth. In short, pharmakon expresses contingency and possibility, both life and death. Now think back to what we have just been discussing in relation to populism.
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Do we really want to say that populism is always and everywhere a threat to democracy, something to be opposed or fearful of? Are there not moments or contexts where an appeal to the people versus corrupt or decadent elites might make sense in terms of saving democracy — from itself? By contrast, are we really convinced that the appeal to the people is a necessary and constructive feature of politics, indeed something that we cannot avoid?
The emergence of a populist discourse in Spain accompanied a near-complete collapse in faith in the political elites. Millions of people flooded the streets in to protest against those who were inflicting austerity from the luxury of the presidential palace. It was a manoeuvre pitched in the midst of well-documented examples of corruption, clientelism and cronyism — not to mention the extraordinary waste of public money on useless megaprojects that seemed to rub the noses of ordinary people in the dirt of their own powerlessness.
However, it sounded a false note for others: Through clever semantics he countered the populist charge of Marine Le Pen with a neat populist manoeuvre. He was the political outsider who had given up on the elites; she was the product of the elites — or least one part of it. Macron was the figure untainted by association with the failed political order, while Le Pen reeked of stale battles and a lost France.
Not a battle royale but a bataille Republican of Pharmaka.
How long before this outsider rhetoric collides with the reality of budget cuts and labour market reforms? Accepting the ambivalence of populism and pharmakon, so what? Why does it matter what kind of spin we put on the term? I Agree This site uses cookies to deliver our services, improve performance, for analytics, and if not signed in for advertising.
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Recently added by Aristocats , Violette62 , redwritinghood38 , vernefan , bbayjo , shan. No current Talk conversations about this book. Although this starts with the mysterious death of a young boy, this book is so much more than a mystery. It is in Brooklyn, and a young doctor who practices with his father becomes embroiled in the world of profit and greed.
A fascinating look at unregulated medicines, the lack of foresight or outright falsification of testing, and the many dangerous combinations that some physicians prescribed.
What a scary world, morphine, opium, all in medicines given to children as well as adults. Fantastic rendering of time and place, a dark, forbading atmosphere, with many willing to do anything for money. Not much has changed there, nor the greed of the drug companies, but now at least there is some control.