Covid, Biopolitics and the Suspension of the Nomos: Herd Immunities [Hardcover]

This book considers how, during the unprecedented global lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the normal order of everyday life, of the rule of law, of power itself was interrupted, and hence the nomos of this earth was suspended.?

Preface: The Philosophy of Covid. Introduction: Nomosology and the Suspension of Nomos 20202022 1. Herd Immunities 2. Viral Load or Life in the Virosphere 3. The Immune System, the Floating Brain and the Philosophy of Covid 4. Foucault and the Nomosology of Pastoral Power 5. Deleuze, Guattari, and their Assemblage Theory of Herding 6. Wolves, Herds, Flocks, Packs, Particles Tuareg:  Did We Move in Our Bubbles to a Purpose During Lockdown? 7. Herds Taken as Sets of Beings 8. Immunitas: The Indifference of Life and Death 9. The Immune Multiple 10. Conclusion: Covid, Biopolitics and the Resumption of the Nomos

This book considers how, during the unprecedented global lockdown due to the Covid-19 pandemic, the normal order of everyday life, of the rule of law, of power itself was interrupted, and hence the nomos of this earth was suspended.

Employing the term herd immunity from vaccination science and global lockdown policy as a guiding theme, the book considers two central aspects of the pandemic. These are the function of herding and collecting as a definition of ontology after Alain Badiou, and the concept of immunity as a suspension of oppositional differences in the work of Roberto Esposito. It then considers how herd immunity not only disrupts the nomos but also suspends its significance as a guiding principle of state-sanctioned legal normsand perhaps permanently. Providing critical readings of masking, social distancing, compliance, vulnerability, bubbles, immunity, breathing, anti-vaxxers, nudge theory, cocooning, lockdown, patient ls¢