The pandemic has revealed the deep and structural inequalities marking various lifeworlds and social landscapes, accelerating trends and vulnerabilities long at play. It has further entrenched deep inequalities between the Global South and the North. At the same time, the pandemic has ushered in a profound realization of the interconnectedness and imbrication of various fields: the medical, the economic, the political, and the environmental. One crisis has led to another in a cascade of interlinked crises, eroding the legitimacy of political leaders and governing structures. It has led to a temporal, material, and social suspension, which was most acutely felt during state-imposed lockdowns, and has, at least temporarily, confined people to the immediate present. This suspension has impeded our ability to think in the uncertain, unpredictable, and opaque terms of a future.
Like all crises, the pandemic triggers a radical rethinking not only of the present and the future, but...
