Volume 64, Issue 4, Fall 2020
Philosophy in a Time of Pandemic
Ewa Plonowska Ziarek
Pages 925-930
Triple Pandemics
COVID-19, Anti-Black Violence, and Digital Capitalism
This essay diagnoses systemic interconnections between COVID-19 pandemics, anti-Black racism, and the intensification of digital capitalism. By drawing on Charles Mills’ rectificatory justice and Hannah Arendt’s reflections on understanding and action, it argues that the role of philosophy lies in safeguarding racial justice and understanding against the hegemony algorithmic governmentality.