Pandemic Education and Viral Politics

ISBN-13: 9780367635404 / Angielski / Miękka / 2020 / 118 str.

Michael A. Peters; Tina Besley

Opis

Michael A. Peters, working with three co-authors, explores human resilience and the collective response to catastrophe, and the philosophy and literature of pandemics, including ‘love and social distancing in the time of Covid-19.’

Spis treści

1. Introduction: education, philosophy and viral politics 2. Viral modernity? Epidemics, infodemics, and the ‘bioinformational’ paradigm 3. A viral theory of post-truth 4. On the epistemology of conspiracy 5. Love and social distancing in the time of Covid-19: the philosophy and literature of pandemics 6. The Plague: human resilience and the collective response to catastrophe 7. Philosophy and pandemic in the postdigital era: Foucault, Agamben, Žižek 8. The disorder of things: quarantine unemployment, the decline of neoliberalism, and the Covid-19 crash 9. ‘Reality is an activity of the most august imagination’. When the world stops, it’s not a complete disaster – we can hear the birds sing! 10. The Chinese dream encounters COVID-19 11. Biopolitics, conspiracy and the immuno-state: an evolving global politico-genetic complex