Miscellaneous
I discuss COVID-19 in response to Hall's discussion of systems collapse and Zizek's recent articles on the virus as an opportunity for capitalism. I start to put these in context of Debord and Baudirllard's discussion of the fusion of state and corporations in the early 20th century post 1929, framing their analysis as arguing we are already Post-Capitalism. I frame this as COVID-19 shocking us into realizing that the public/private distinction has been overcome.