Emergency-powers measures become unrepealable once crisis is normalised

Evidence

For all that we know, the Britain of the film could still be a democracy, and the authoritarian measures that are everywhere in place could have been implemented within a political structure that remains, notionally, democratic. The War on Terror has prepared us for such a development: the normalisation of crisis produces a situation in which the repealing of measures brought in to deal with an emergency becomes unimaginable (when will the war be over?). Democratic rights and freedoms (habeas corpus, free speech and assembly) are suspended while democracy is still proclaimed. — Mark Fisher (edited by Darren Ambrose), K-Punk, 559

Categorization

• QUESTION: The permanent-state-of-exception mechanism Fisher names here deserves fuller theoretical investigation across Agamben and post-9/11 surveillance.
• XREF: connects to: Crisis normalization makes the repeal of emergency measures unimaginable — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 7; Authoritarian measures can persist within nominally democratic structures via normalized crisis — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 7; Emergency measures become permanent once crisis is normalized. — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism: Is There No…, 7

Broader Connections

• Authoritarian measures can persist within nominally democratic structures via normalized crisis #corroborates (0.92) — Mark Fisher, Capitalist Realism, 7