Monster Enters COVID-19, Avian Flu, and the Plagues of Capitalism
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Biografisk notat
A former meat cutter and truck driver, as well as a recipient of the MacArthur Fellowship and the Lannan Literary Award, Mike Davis's many books include Set the Night on Fire, Planet of Slums, and Late Victorian Holocausts. He lives in San Diego.Mike Davis's <i>The Monster at our Door</i>...gives me everything that the news cycle doesn't: a sense of the interconnected forces and the history that set us up for what we're experiencing.
- Molly Dektar, Vogue
[A] tour de force... Read Mike Davis' new updated book before the monster rebounds and we spiral down again.
Counterpunch
Provocative and controversial, as always, and a worthy addition to the literature of plague and pestilence.
Kirkus Reviews
In language both accessible and authoritative, The Monster Enters surveys the scientific and political roots of today's viral apocalypse. In doing so it exposes the key roles of agribusiness and the fast-food industries, abetted by corrupt governments and a capitalist global system careening out of control, in creating the ecological pre-conditions for a plague that has brought much of human existence to a juddering halt.