Winter 2021

Volume 47 Issue 2

- 1–Hank Scotch
- Posts from the Pandemic: An Introduction
- The following collection of short essays, poems, and images were originally posted on the Critical Inquiry blog between March and June 2020.
- 4–Slavoj Žižek
- Is Barbarism with a Human Face Our Fate?
- 9–Nikolaj Schultz
- The Climatic Virus in an Age of Paralysis
- 13–Catherine Malabou
- To Quarantine from Quarantine: Rousseau, Robinson Crusoe, and “I”
- 17–Kyle Stevens
- When Movies Get Sick
- 25–Bruno Latour
- Is This a Dress Rehearsal?
- 28–Joshua Clover
- The Rise and Fall of Biopolitics: A Response to Bruno Latour
- 33–Michael Taussig
- Would a Shaman Help?
- 37–Andrea Brady
- Hanging in the Air
- 40–Daniel Lorenzini
- Biopolitics in the Time of Coronavirus
- 46–Carol J. Adams
- Anticipatory Care
- 49–Norman MacLeod
- COVID-19 Metaphors
- 52–Alexander García Düttmann and Translated by James Fontini
- A Letter to Oliver Vogel
- 55–Lorraine Daston
- Ground-Zero Empiricism
- 58–Achille Mbembe and Translated by Carolyn Shread
- The Universal Right to Breathe
- 63–Peter Szendy
- Viral Times
- 68–N. Katherine Hayles
- Novel Corona: Posthuman Virus
- 73–Emmanuel Alloa
- Coronavirus: A Contingency that Eliminates Contingency
- 77–Irina Dumitrescu and Caleb Smith
- The Demon of Distraction
- 82–Charles Bernstein
- Covidity
- 85–Bill Ayers
- OK, Zoomer!
- 89–John Wilkinson
- After Lucretius
- 90–Bernard E. Harcourt
- On Cooperationism: An End to the Economic Plague
- 95–W. J. T. Mitchell
- Groundhog Day and the Epoché
- 100–Chiara Cappelletto and Translated by Samuel Fleck
- Arguments for a New Aesthetic of Presence
- 104–Wendy Hui Kyong Chun
- Net-munity, or the Space between Us … Will Open the Future
- 110–Lydia H. Liu
- The Incalculable: Thoughts on the Collapse of the Biosecurity Regime
- 115–Leela Gandhi
- Skeptical Conditions
- 119–Romi Crawford
- Connecting Breaths
- 121–Jenny Holzer
- COVID-19/EXPOSE
- 123–Ewan Jones
- How to Learn Together, Apart
- 128–Hannah B Higgins
- Sonic Images of the Coronavirus
- 132–Robert Gooding-Williams
- Revisiting the Ferguson Report: Antiblack Concepts and the Practice of Policing
- 138–Lennard Davis
- In the Time of Pandemic, the Deep Structure of Biopower Is Laid Bare

Critical Inquiry Critical Inquiry

Winter 2021

Is Barbarism with a Human Face Our Fate?

The Climatic Virus in an Age of Paralysis

To Quarantine from Quarantine: Rousseau, Robinson Crusoe, and “I”

When Movies Get Sick

Is This a Dress Rehearsal?

The Rise and Fall of Biopolitics: A Response to Bruno Latour

Would a Shaman Help?

Hanging in the Air

Biopolitics in the Time of Coronavirus

Anticipatory Care

COVID-19 Metaphors

A Letter to Oliver Vogel

Ground-Zero Empiricism

The Universal Right to Breathe

Viral Times

Novel Corona: Posthuman Virus

Coronavirus: A Contingency that Eliminates Contingency

The Demon of Distraction

Covidity

OK, Zoomer!

After Lucretius

On Cooperationism: An End to the Economic Plague

Groundhog Day and the Epoché

Arguments for a New Aesthetic of Presence

Net-munity, or the Space between Us … Will Open the Future

The Incalculable: Thoughts on the Collapse of the Biosecurity Regime

Skeptical Conditions

Connecting Breaths

COVID-19/EXPOSE

How to Learn Together, Apart

Sonic Images of the Coronavirus

Revisiting the Ferguson Report: Antiblack Concepts and the Practice of Policing

In the Time of Pandemic, the Deep Structure of Biopower Is Laid Bare