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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 inter-rupted, 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. These are the function of herding and collecting as a definition of ontology after Alain Badiou, and the concept of immunity as a suspension of oppositional differences in the work of Roberto Es-posito. It then considers how herd immunity not only disrupts the nomos, but suspends its significance as a guiding principle of state-sanctioned legal norms - and perhaps permanent-ly. Providing critical readings of masking, social distancing, compliance, vulnerability, bub-bles, immunity, breathing, anti-vaxxers, nudge theory, cocooning, lockdown, patient zero, and the many other terms that became commonplace between 2020 and 2022, the book trac-es a suspension of legal and social norms, a manipulation of our compliance using false sci-ence, and a reconfiguring of the social nomos, in light of the threats of the virus. In a highly original mix of contemporary and post-war continental philosophy, biopolitical theory, set theoretical mathematics, extensional logic, and the most up-to-date science in the area, it argues that lockdown was not some global, biopolitical power grab, but actually a weaken-ing of power, of nomos. This book will appeal to scholars and others in a range of disciplinary areas with interests in the legacy of covid; but especially those working in the areas of continental philosophy, con-temporary legal theory and biopolitics"--
ISBN 9781032888118
