Pandemic Education and Viral Politics (Hardcover)

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, ?i?ek 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, The Wuhan Nightmare and COVID-19 Conspiracies 11. Biopolitics, conspiracy and the immuno-state: an evolving global politico-genetic complex