Biosecurity, Economic Collapse, the State to Come : Political Power in the Pandemic and Beyond (Paperback)

1. Introduction: the twin crises and the capitalist state

Part I. Biosecurity

2. Medical power

3. The threat

4. Biosecurity law

5. Protect the NHS (the spectacle of public health)

6. Cancel society

7. The knowledge of biosecurity

Part II. Economic Collapse

8. Fear vs fear

9. This is not a normal crisis

10. The great mothball

11. Sacrificial labour

12. Workfare

13. Pandemic distribution

14. Towards a dual economy: welfare for capital, workfare for everyone else

Part III. The State to Come

15. Biopolitics and threat governmentality

16. From there is no alternative to whatever it takes

17. The rule of law and endless pseudo-necessity

18. Personal responsibility and the irresponsible state

19. Neoliberal despotism

20. Overcoming the order of fear

21. Postscript: Pericles and the plague