Pandemic Dashboard

Giovanna Borradori is a Professor of Philosophy and Media Studies at Vassar College, USA. Her scholarship has investigated the relationship between aesthetics and politics, with particular attention to the visual cultures of neoliberalism, terrorism and collective memory, the philosophy of photography, the phenomenology of new media, and the colonial and postcolonial imagination. Her Philosophy in the Time of Terror: Dialogues with Jürgen Habermas and Jacques Derrida (2003) was the first philosophical examination of the events of September 11, 2001, and the geopolitical transformation that followed. Translated into 22 languages, this book generated the historical rapprochement between Critical Theory and deconstruction.Ruoyu Li is an Assistant Professor of Peace and Conflict Studies at Colgate University, USA. She was a Henry A. Kissinger Predoctoral Fellow at the Jackson School of Global Affairs at Yale University (2024–2025). Her research focuses on US nuclear testing in the Pacific Ocean, captured at the intersection of Critical International Relations, Pacific Studies, and Science and Technology Studies. Her articles have appeared in Security Studies and International Politics.

• Introduction. Chapter 1. The Visual Culture of the Pandemic. Chapter 2. A Media Phenomenology of the Pandemic. Chapter 3. A Numerical Ontology of the Pandemic. Chapter 4. The Apparatus of Global Numeration. Chapter 5. Genealogies and Practices of Pandemic Power. Chapter 6. The Pandemic Condition. Conclusion: Numbers and Ashes.