I focus my discussion on this part of the world because it’s the part I’m most familiar with—specifically the cities of Berlin, Belgrade, and Amsterdam, where I live and work.
Roberto Esposito, “The Biopolitics of Immunity in Times of COVID-19,” interview by Tim Christiaens and Stijn De Cauwer, Antipode Online, June 16, 2020 →. See also Btihaj Ajana, “Immunitarianism: Defence and Sacrifice in the Politics of Covid-19,” History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences 43, no. 25 (2021).
Manuel Castells, The Rise of the Network Society (Blackwell, 1996). Eve Chiapello and Luc Boltanski, New Spirit of Capitalism, trans. Gregory Elliott (1999; Verso, 2007).
Cf. Arundhati Roy, “The Pandemic Is a Portal,” Financial Times, April 30, 2020 →.
See Helen Lewis, “The Coronavirus Is a Disaster for Feminism,” The Atlantic, March 19, 2020 →.
Milena Šošić, “A Brief Analysis of the Legality of the Government Measures/Response to COVID-19 from the Human Rights Perspective,” Civic Space Watch, May 12, 2020 →.
Ivan Illich, Tools for Conviviality (Marion Boyars, 2001).
See Franco “Bifo” Berardi, “Freedom and Potency,” e-flux journal, no. 116 (March 2021) →.
In contrast to “whole,” “all” can refer to both singular and plural nouns or pronouns, and its corresponding verb can be either singular or plural. “All” can signify both open and limited generalizations. “Not all” signifies a part of “all” without dismissing the whole group entity.
Gilbert Simondon, Individuation in Light of Notions of Form and Information (University of Minnesota Press, 2020). Bernard Stiegler, Technics and Time, 1: The Fault of Epimetheus (Stanford University Press, 1998). Paolo Virno, A Grammar of the Multitude: For an Analysis of Contemporary Forms of Life (Semiotext(e), 2004). Simondon’s concern is ontology, while Virno and Stiegler focus on political categories.
Jason Read, “The Production of Subjectivity: From Transindividuality to The Commons,” New Formations, no. 70 (2011): 118.
Illich, Tools for Conviviality.
Gayatri Chakravorty Spivak, An Aesthetic Education in the Era of Globalization (Harvard University Press, 2012).