Editorial

Abstract

Present conditions of living for human and more-than-human lives are presenting difficult scenarios for an adequate development of the world’s own becoming. We are living in a permanent state of pandemic waved by a series of periods that fluctuate past, present and future in order to establish a new regime of power based upon the fiercest biopolitical power that Foucault (1978) could have had envisioned back in the seventies. If January 2021 started with an enfleshed materialization of Margaret Atwood’s The Handmaid’s Tale with the assault of the United States Capitol, June 2021, the international pride month, is manifested in Spain with a brutal homophobic assassination of Samuel, a young gay man who was in a videocall with a friend and the one year and five months detention of Patrick Zake (a postgraduate master student in the Erasmus Mundus GEMMA program) in Egypt for defending human rights internationally. This permanent state of alarm is focusing global attention to a particular health condition, which is COVID-19 but, at the same time, it is disregarding many other affections that humans and more-than-humans are suffering from. Not only the many other health diseases that keep on infecting and pandeming non-Western countries, but also the diseases that are affecting our environment as the Australian fires claimed on their own in 2019, or diseases that have to do with communicative practices as the spreading of fake news.