Viral Critique: Postfoundational Perspectives on Covid-19

The book brings together papers that employ postfoundational theory to critically investigate the social, political, economic and ecological dynamics and power structures that shaped Western democracies, non-Western societies and international politics during the COVID-19 pandemic.

Hannah Richter is Lecturer in Politics at the University of Sussex, UK. Her research develops innovative pathways for contemporary political theory, particularly through links to systems and complexity theory as well as indigenous thought and anti-colonial resistance. Her monograph The Politics of Orientation: Deleuze meets Luhmann (2023) explores the rise of post-truth populism via the theories of Gilles Deleuze and Niklas Luhmann. Anther monography, Challenging Anthropocene Ontology: Modernity Ecology and Indigenous Complexities, is forthcoming. Amongst others, her work has been published in International Political Sociology, the European Journal of Social Theory and European Journal of Political Theory.