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Covid, Biopolitics and the Suspension of the Nomos: Herd Immunities book cover

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Covid, Biopolitics and the Suspension of the Nomos Herd Immunities

By William Watkin Copyright 2025
260 Pages
by Routledge

260 Pages
by Routledge
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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.... Read more

Preface: The Philosophy of Covid. Introduction: Nomosology and the Suspension of Nomos 2020–2022 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

Biography

William Watkin is Professor of Contemporary Philosophy and Literature, Brunel University, London, UK. He is the author of In the Process of Poetry: The New York School and the Avant-Garde, On Mourning: Theories of Loss in Modern Literature, The Literary Agamben, Agamben and Indifference, Badiou and Indifferent Being, Badiou and Communicable Worlds, Bioviolence: How the powers that be make us do what they want, and Infinite Existence. His two-volume study indifference will appear sometime in 2026.

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