Pandemonium
Proliferating Borders of Capital and the Pandemic Swerve
$54.45
- Paperback
144 pages
- Release Date
19 July 2020
Summary
In November 2019, a new strain of coronavirus appeared in Wuhan, China, and quickly spread across the world. Since then, the pandemic has exposed the brutal limits of care and health under capitalism.
Pandemonium underscores the turning-points between neoliberalism and authoritarian government, crystallised by ineffective responses to the pandemic. In so doing, it questions capitalist understandings of order and disorder, of health and disease, and the new world borders which…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780745343303 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0745343309 |
| Author: | Angela Mitropoulos |
| Publisher: | Pluto Press |
| Imprint: | Pluto Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 144 |
| Release Date: | 19 July 2020 |
| Weight: | 129g |
| Dimensions: | 215mm x 110mm |
| Series: | Vagabonds |
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‘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’
– ROARAbout The Author
Angela Mitropoulos
Angela 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).
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