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with the emergence of a permanent underclass of unemployed

social protection and redistribution

Constance Penley

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Democracy in the Political Present keyword-orange ten years laterPresentist democracy is without a people and without nation. Rather than regimes of borders and migration, its borders are sexism and racism, homo and transphobia, colonialism and extractivism. In the midst of the crises and threats to liberal democracy, Isabell Lorey develops a democracy in the present tense; one which breaks open political certainties and linear concepts of progress and growth. Her queer feminist political theory formulates a