Democratic backsliding is a commonplace in the contemporary constitutional language. Duly elected governments which are able to reform formal constitutions in a counter democratic way. That is common said about Poland or Hungary and the cause, as common said, is populism. In Italy, or in other Eu countries which can be considered as advanced democracies, if this expression can be used or sounds good, this is not the problem. There is populism but populism is not a problem in Italy, USA or UK and so on. The real problem, in the opinion explained in this essay, is biopolitcs. The Foucault idea for which the power of surveillance is governance by pleasure is the actual power and this power is not in the hands of a government or a State or a democracy, it is in the hands of net corporations, big as a modern State and surely not democratic. So the aim of a constitutional scholar who wants to defend democracy is not a discourse about populism, or the crisis of representation. The real discourse is about the real essence of internet and how we can make available fundamental rights in the code.
La potenza del fatto: crisi o decomposizione della democrazia
Gian Luca Conti
2021-01-01
Abstract
Democratic backsliding is a commonplace in the contemporary constitutional language. Duly elected governments which are able to reform formal constitutions in a counter democratic way. That is common said about Poland or Hungary and the cause, as common said, is populism. In Italy, or in other Eu countries which can be considered as advanced democracies, if this expression can be used or sounds good, this is not the problem. There is populism but populism is not a problem in Italy, USA or UK and so on. The real problem, in the opinion explained in this essay, is biopolitcs. The Foucault idea for which the power of surveillance is governance by pleasure is the actual power and this power is not in the hands of a government or a State or a democracy, it is in the hands of net corporations, big as a modern State and surely not democratic. So the aim of a constitutional scholar who wants to defend democracy is not a discourse about populism, or the crisis of representation. The real discourse is about the real essence of internet and how we can make available fundamental rights in the code.I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
