Politics is visceral
In an age thick with anger and fear, we live in bodies that feel increasingly unsafe. We might dream of a purely rational politics but it would be a denial of our human nature. We live in bodies that feel increasingly unsafe. Pandemics, climate change, sexual assault, systemic racism, the pressures of gig-economy jobs, the crisis of liberal democracy – these phenomena create feelings of vulnerability that are, quite literally, visceral. They are visceral in the sense that emo