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Tag Archives: State terror
Albert Camus: The plague is the concern of all
Reflections on our contemporary Albert Camus on times of the pandemic … No longer merely metaphor: Re-reading The Plague by Albert Camus Kristian Williams (threewayfight, 28/03/2020) Albert Camus’ novel The Plague offers a portrait of a town under quarantine, ravaged by an epidemic. … Continue reading
Gianfranco Sanguinetti: A virus removes the veil of bourgeois democracy
Sanguinetti proposes a reading of the COVID-19 pandemic which argues that the coronavirus has brought the pretensions of liberal, bourgeois democracy to an end. We now enter upon an age of open despotism. However problematic such a division of epochs … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: Normalising the state of exception under the Covid-19 epidemic
What follows is an interview with Giorgio Agamben by Nicolas Truong for Le Monde (24/03/2020), where he analyses “the very serious ethical and political consequences” of the security measures applied to curb the pandemic. As Le Monde reserves full access … Continue reading
The coronavirus as a declaration of war
An essay by Santiago López Petit … (el critic 18/03/2020; comite disperso 19/03/2020; lobo suelto 19/03/2020)
Mapping a virus: China and beyond
The Chuang journal-blog dedicates itself to studying and analyzing chinese capitalism, or in the groups own words: Chuang will publish a journal analyzing the ongoing development of capitalism in China, its historical roots, and the revolts of those crushed beneath it. … Continue reading
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Viruses and Separation
From the journal Inhabit … Viruses and Separation: Frédéric Neyrat on political virality and competing separatisms (15/03/2020) Originally published in Terrestres on March 5, 2020 Translated from the French by an anonymous friend “Our enemy is separatism,” President Macron recently declared. Hearing … Continue reading
Wrestling with a virus
From the journal Inhabit … Crisis and Control: Resisting the end of the world by proliferating new worlds COVID-19 is the culmination of a decade of contagion movies, the beginning of the worst. Every little anxiety baked into the liberal … Continue reading
Reflections on a virus: Trying to see the catastrophe where it is not said to be
Power is domination: all it can do is prohibit, and all it can command is obedience. Michel Foucault Human societies have become like devouring and insatiable mono-cultures, and as such, the viruses multiply. Made therefore fragile, we turn to the … Continue reading
Giorgio Agamben: The coronaviris and the state of exception
Before the frenzied, irrational and totally unjustified emergency measures taken for a supposed epidemic due to the coronavirus, it is necessary to start with the declarations of the CNR (Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche), according to which “there is no epidemic … Continue reading
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Greece: The politics of exception in times of the pandemic (2)
Greece is often presented as an example to follow in the control of the COVID-19 pandemic, having kept numbers of infection and death comparatively low. (the Guardian) What is so often ignored or passed over in these celebratory judgements is … Continue reading →