ABSTRACT
The scale and speed of the Covid outbreak as well as the governmental reactions to it, including but not restricted to lockdowns, have posed challenges for modes of human sociality and economic relation. The pandemic has been an Anthropocenic event, a kind of warning sign for future catastrophes that stem from the unbalanced human relation to nature. How then are we to make sense of the shifting valences of human relationality brought by the outbreak, keeping in mind that they register the relations of humans not only to each other but also to nonhuman forms of life and inhuman forms of technology and artificial intelligence? This chapter engages these questions by investigating two fields in which the politics of relationality have shifted during the pandemic: logistics (or the mobility of people and things) and the platformization of economy.
