"Many of us have been able to stay home to keep safe in the COVID-19 pandemic. This book shows how this would not be possible without food workers continuing to work to farm and produce our food, deliver it by truck, sell it to us in stores, and make sure everything is clean."--

"COVID-19 exposed the pre-existing conditions of the current global crisis. Many Western states failed to protect their populations, while others were able to suppress the virus only with sweeping social restrictions. "The Revenge of the Real" envisions a new positive biopolitics that recognizes that governance is literally a matter of life and death. Bratton argues that instead of thinking of technology as something that happens to society, we must...

"A leading microbiologist tackles the scientific and sociopolitical impact of viruses in twelve striking essays. Invisible in the food we eat, the people we kiss, and inside our own bodies, viruses flourish-with the power to shape not only our health, but our social, political, and economic systems. Drawing on his expertise in microbiology, Joseph Osmundson brings readers under the microscope to understand the structure and mechanics of viruses and...

The long-standing pandemic of gender-based violence has been worsened by COVID-19 and related containment measures, particularly in fragile settings marked by conflict, poverty, and weak infrastructure. At the same time, the implementation of gender-insensitive COVID-19 control policies can exacerbate the community transmission of COVID-19. These interactions form a syndemic--two or more pandemics whose interactions compound the severity of each....