Locating the political of the post-corona, a moment of reflection.

The bio-political and the post-human turn have come to the forefront of discussion among global intellectuals since the beginning of the ongoing Corona Crisis. Supporters of both these trends argue that the concept of the political must be found beyond the category of the human political (bios) – in order to find any kind of resolution in the post-corona. This theoretical backdrop, and two photos of a recent Eid Prayer in Bangladesh may provide us with a site on which we can articulate an idea of the political that binds the Zoe (animal life) of human and the Geo (non-life) in an intimate relation. My main argument is that these images help us to articulate a zone of intimate connection in which the human zoe and the non-human geo find themselves in common solidarity in suffering the brunt of the anthropogenic climate change, and a moment of mutual reflection that depicts a post-human subjectivity.
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