Viral Critique -

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Résumé :
The book brings together papers that employ postfoundational theory to critically investigate the social, political, economic and ecological dynamics and power structures that shaped Western democracies, non-Western societies and international politics during the COVID-19 pandemic....

Biographie:
Introduction-COVID-19, viral social theory and immunitarian perceptions: a case for postfoundational critique 1. Critique, clinic, and care in times of COVID 2. An evental pandemic: thinking the COVID-19 'event' with Deleuze and Foucault 3. Derrida, autoimmunity, and critique 4. Giorgio Agamben's political formalism 5. The biopolitical economy of the COVID-19 pandemic and the possibilities for an affirmative biopolitics 6. Redefining 'safe bodies': queering the shifting body politics during the COVID-19 pandemic 7. Vaccine apartheid and settler colonial sovereign violence: from Palestine to the colonial global economy 8. What is COVID capitalism? 9. Low-skill no more! essential workers, social reproduction and the legitimacy-crisis of the division of labour 10. Sublimating the commodity 11. Post-COVID ecology: mutation, immunology, and inequivalence in Jacques Derrida's aneconomy 12. Democratic politics in virulent times: three vital lessons from the COVID-19 pandemic 13. Beyond fairness: the COVID-19 pandemic as an expression of environmental injustice...

Sommaire:
The book brings together papers that employ postfoundational theory to critically investigate the social, political, economic and ecological dynamics and power structures that shaped Western democracies, non-Western societies and international politics during the COVID-19 pandemic....