Richard Seymour
Political verities have been upended by tiny fragments of genetic
material. Of the many books tracking the causes of this blight, none has
gone deeper than Andreas Malm’s Corona, Climate, Chronic Emergency
(Verso). Malm treats the Covid crisis as one aspect of a general
ecological pestilence from wildfires to “extreme” weather. They share a
causal factor: “parasitic capital” and its colonisation of “wild
nature”. The same forces propelling deforestation and extinction have
also liberated zoonotic viruses from their animal reservoirs, conveying
them to unwitting human hosts. As always with Malm, this new
intervention is darkly elegant and studded with recondite history.
https://www.newstatesman.com/best-books-2020
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