Böcker av Peter Black

COVID-19 has brought about a rupture in the trajectory of our societies, presenting the world with an unprecedented crisis, but also providing a point of reflection and an opening to imagine and articulate alternative futures. "Infectious Futures: Reflections, Visions, and Worlds Through and Beyond COVID-19" brings together 28 essays, articles, and conversations from leading scholars and thinkers from around the world, who explore the existential questions that COVID-19 confronts us with, and who analyse and imagine how we may navigate this crisis to create preferred futures. This book challenges many of the core assumptions of our era and invites us to see this moment as peculiar and transitory-and ripe with the potential for change. Amid the loss and grief is the possibility for renewal, as new visions emerge and lead to experiments and new pathways.

We live in an age of rising domestic terrorism. Much of this is a result of distortion of the truth and political twisting of data. Suppose, however, a compound could be used by extremists to change peaceful demonstrators into insurrectionists, removing the need for political persuasion.Berserker is that deadly compound. Resurrected by a media magnate from an ancient Viking formula, it renders humans berserk.Duncan MacGregor and his team must expose a plot to destroy American democracy, find the perpetrators. and disable them before they create overwhelming chaos.

Published to accompany an exhibition held at the Hunterian Art Gallery, University of Glasgow, June 15-Dec. 1, 2007.