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This volume reflects on different regional and national experiences of the Covid 19 pandemic, with contributions from India, Thailand, Singapore, Australia, Italy, United States, and Canada.
This book draws upon a number of approaches but especially the works of Deleuze and Guattari, Agamben, Derrida, Foucault, Habermas, Latour, and Serres. It looks at the methodological aspects of treating the pandemic, focuses on laying out the posthuman condition of the event largely problematizing the immanence of life which affirms the transversal Deleuzian ethic of life, and extends the politics of life to the domain of immunology. Together, the authors make it apparent that the pandemic is a multifaceted event, or many different kinds of events - virological, informational, phenomenological, social, and discursive. The authors skilfully develop these different dimensions of the pandemic event and show the relations between them. These essays will enrich the reader's understanding of the pandemic and its effects, while demonstrating the depth and breadth of the resources that humanities scholarship can mobilize to help us understand such phenomena.
This volume will be useful to students of posthumanism, medical humanities, health communication, political communication, semiotics, literature, cultural theories, and major strains of thought from contemporary continental philosophy.
Contents
List of Contributors ix Acknowledgements xii 1 Introduction 1 Paul Patton, NY Manoj, and Saima Saeed PART I Analysing the Pandemic: Ontology and Method 11 2 Pandemic and the Question of Life: Towards a Posthuman Ontology 13 NY Manoj 3 Metamodelling the Pandemic: A Guattarian Approach 39 Gary Genosko 4 The Covid-19 Pandemic and Medico-Cyber-Political Discourse 52 Kenneth Surin 5 The Time of Uncanny, the Time of Event 66 Daniela Angelucci PART II Politics of the Pandemic 77 6 COVID-19 and the Production of Knowledge: Communication, Control, and the Citizenry 79 Saima Saeed 7 Philosophy and Pandemics: Agamben, Deleuze, and Zoepolitics in an Age of Covid-19 96 Tony See Sin Heng 8 Of Virus and Man: From Wound to Belief in the World 107 Sebastian Hsien-Hao Liao PART III Thought in Response to the Pandemic: New Concepts 125 9 Living in a World without Others 127 Gregg Lambert 10 The Dithering Pandemic 145 David R. Cole 11 Quarantine or Feast? Hospitality and the State of Plague 159 Janell Watson Index 176
