Foucault in the Age of COVID-19: Permitting Contingency in Biopolitics

Authors

  • Mark Horvath Independent Researcher
  • Adam Lovasz Eötvös Loránd University

Keywords:

COVID-19, pandemic

Abstract

Author(s): Mark Horvath and Adam Lovasz

Title (English): Foucault in the Age of COVID-19: Permitting Contingency in Biopolitics

Journal Reference: Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture

Publisher: Institute of Social Sciences and Humanities - Skopje  

Page Range: 144-153

Page Count: 10

Citation (English): Mark Horvath and Adam Lovasz, “Foucault in the Age of COVID-19: Permitting Contingency in Biopolitics,” Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, Vol. 17, No. 1 (Summer 2020): 144-153.

Author Biographies

Mark Horvath, Independent Researcher

Mark Horvath is a philosopher and researcher who lives in Buda­pest. He is, along with Adam Lovasz, co-founder and co-editor of Absentology, a Facebook page dedicated to philosophy and we­ird science, and Poli-p, a Hungarian posthumanist collective. His areas of interest include posthumanism, digital studies, specula­tive realism, pessimism, nihilism, finitude, and the anthropocene. He has presented at many Hungarian and international conferen­ces, and published in some journals. He has published ten books, including two monographs in English.

Adam Lovasz, Eötvös Loránd University

Adam Lovasz is an Australian-born philosopher based in Hungary. Currently Lovasz is a Ph.D. student enrolled in the Ethics and Poli­tical Philosophy Program at Eötvös Loránd University, Budapest. His interests include continental philosophy, embodiment, phen­omenology, posthumanism and speculative realism. He is author and co-author of numerous books, most recently the first Hunga­rian-language textbook on Speculative Realism and New Realism. Adam is also co-founder (with Mark Horvath) of Absentology, a center for collaboration and interdisciplinary philosophical inquiry.

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Published

2020-11-09

How to Cite

Horvath, M., & Lovasz, A. . (2020). Foucault in the Age of COVID-19: Permitting Contingency in Biopolitics. Identities: Journal for Politics, Gender and Culture, 17(1), 144-153. Retrieved from https://identitiesjournal.edu.mk/index.php/IJPGC/article/view/441