Philosophy, Biopolitics, and the Virus: The Elision of an Alternative Lewis Michael
Philosophy, Biopolitics, and the Virus: The Elision of an Alternative Lewis Michael Every aspect of the pandemic was said to be 'total, ' absolute, and undiscriminating. The virus was everywhere, and…
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Philosophy, Biopolitics, and the Virus: The Elision of an Alternative Lewis Michael
Every aspect of the pandemic was said to be 'total, ' absolute, and undiscriminating. The virus was everywhere, and a threat to us all. Its very name implied as much.
In each case of seeming universality, dissent immediately identifies you as a friend of the virus. Philosophy, Biopolitics, and the Virus: The Elision of an Alternative identifies three moments within the pandemic that were conceived in such a monolithic way: (1) 'The Science, ' which had to be unanimous if it was to assume a sovereign role, and to have us 'follow' it; (2) 'non-pharmaceutical interventions, ' which were regarded as the only possible response, and without which death and disease would 'run riot'; and (3) there was to be one sole remedy that could bring about the promised end of the restrictions, to the exclusion of every other conception of medicine, treatment, and care. Michael Lewis argues that all of
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