1st Edition
Biosecurity, Economic Collapse, the State to Come Political Power in the Pandemic and Beyond
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
Biography
Christos Boukalas is a senior lecturer in Northumbria Law School. He develops a political theory of law, based on legal and state theory. His research focuses on the advent of a new form of law and state in the course of the 21st century. He has widely published critical accounts on British and American security law and policy, including the monograph Homeland Security, its Law and its State.
