Immunodemocracy: Capitalist Asphyxia by Donatella Di Cesare

Immunodemocracy: Capitalist Asphyxia Donatella Di CesareSemiotext(e), 2021ISBN-13: 978-1-6359-0148-1Paperback120 PagesA stimulating and profound portrayal of the “the breathing catastrophe” that has already left its mark on the twenty-first century, and what needs to come after.Immunodemocracy offers a stimulating and profound portrayal of the epochal event that has already left its mark on the twenty-first century. Moving from the ecological question to the rule of experts, from the state of exception to immunitarian democracy, from rule by fear to the contagion of conspiracy theory, from forced distancing to digital control, Donatella Di Cesare examines how existence is already changing—and what its future political effects may be. In her own personal style, the author reconstructs the dramatic phases of what she calls "the breathing catastrophe." Coronavirus is a sovereign virus that skirts its way around the walls of patriotism and the sovereignists' imperious frontiers. And it rev