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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Angela MitropoulosPublisher: Pluto Press Imprint: Pluto Press Weight: 0.129kg ISBN: 9780745343303ISBN 10: 0745343309 Pages: 144 Publication Date: 20 July 2020 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In Print ![]() This item will be ordered in for you from one of our suppliers. Upon receipt, we will promptly dispatch it out to you. For in store availability, please contact us. Table of ContentsIntroduction 1. Origin of the Species: Origins - Taxonomy - Speciation - Herding 2. Quarantine: Neoliberalism - Colonialism - Medieval Europe - Cordon Sanitaire 3. Bodies In Motion: Herd Immunity - Hobbes - Malthus - Epidemiological Mathematics - Statistics, Class and Racial Classification 4. Pharmakon: Patriarchal Feelings - Risk-taking, Risk-shifting - Pushing Hydroxychloroquine - Experiments, Trials and Lab Rats 5. Liquid Geometries of Value: Pandemic Bonds - Supply-Chain Logistics 6. Economy and Infrastructure: Money and Debt - Postpandem Contracts NotesReviews'This extraordinary work offers urgent analysis of the pandemic's politics of life and death, anchored in the longer histories and wider politics of bodies and borders, economy and infrastructure, and contagion. The abundant insight Mitropoulos offers readers is a precious gift.' -- Deborah Cowen, author of The Deadly Life of Logistics 'An invaluable guide through the excessive noise of overlapping crises. Read this if, like so many of us, you need to pause and take in a broader sweep of thought, of history and of ways of understanding as we all try to survive yet another deadly plague.' -- Gargi Bhattacharayya, author of Rethinking Racial Capitalism 'This book is a scalpel: a tool or a weapon if you hold it right' -- The New Inquiry ‘Pandemonium unpacks the deadly structures of power behind the pandemic that changed the world’ -- ROAR 'An invaluable guide through the excessive noise of overlapping crises. Read this if, like so many of us, you need to pause and take in a broader sweep of thought, of history and of ways of understanding as we all try to survive yet another deadly plague.' -- Gargi Bhattacharayya, author of Rethinking Racial Capitalism 'This extraordinary work offers urgent analysis of the pandemic's politics of life and death, anchored in the longer histories and wider politics of bodies and borders, economy and infrastructure, and contagion. The abundant insight Mitropoulos offers readers is a precious gift.' -- Deborah Cowen, author of The Deadly Life of Logistics 'An invaluable guide through the excessive noise of overlapping crises. Read this if, like so many of us, you need to pause and take in a broader sweep of thought, of history and of ways of understanding as we all try to survive yet another deadly plague.' -- Gargi Bhattacharayya, author of 'Rethinking Racial Capitalism' * Gargi Bhattacharayya, author of 'Rethinking Racial Capitalism' * 'This extraordinary work offers urgent analysis of the pandemic's politics of life and death, anchored in the longer histories and wider politics of bodies and borders, economy and infrastructure, and contagion. The abundant insight Mitropoulos offers readers is a precious gift.' -- Deborah Cowen, author of 'The Deadly Life of Logistics' 'This extraordinary work offers urgent analysis of the pandemic's politics of life and death, anchored in the longer histories and wider politics of bodies and borders, economy and infrastructure, and contagion. The abundant insight Mitropoulos offers readers is a precious gift.' -- Deborah Cowen, author of The Deadly Life of Logistics 'An invaluable guide through the excessive noise of overlapping crises. Read this if, like so many of us, you need to pause and take in a broader sweep of thought, of history and of ways of understanding as we all try to survive yet another deadly plague.' -- Gargi Bhattacharayya, author of Rethinking Racial Capitalism Author InformationAngela Mitropoulos is a theorist and academic based in Sydney, Australia. Among other writings which track shifting boundaries and movements in the history of philosophy, science, aesthetics, politics and economics, she is the author of Contract and Contagion: From Biopolitics to Oikonomia (2012). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |