id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt cord-289029-6vcjioon Suri, Abdul Wahab The Rejuvenation of the Withering Nation State and Bio-power: The New Dynamics of Human Interaction 2020-08-25 .txt text/plain 2784 150 52 The incapacity of some advanced nation-states to control the masses through their frameworks of governmentality is leading to a revival of disciplinary power in the First World. In many parts of the world, states are instrumentalizing this type of power to discipline people in order to control the wide spread of the virus. In our part of the world (Pakistan) the people in power are constantly informing those who are not that, given that the virus is so contagious, they will be unable to provide healthcare to everyone who is infected or likely to be infected. This discourse at the subliminal level conveys the false assumption that under normal circumstances the public sector healthcare apparatus is actually capable of accommodating all the sick people affected by diseases other than COVID-19-which is, of course, untrue. ./cache/cord-289029-6vcjioon.txt ./txt/cord-289029-6vcjioon.txt