Charity and hospitals: the past or the future?
In Part 5 of the Hospital Charity takeover, Fanny Chabrol reflects on charity in the building and operating of hospitals, detailing its inextricable links with capitalist cultures
Reading Banner’s Communicative Biocapitalism in the Time of Covid-19
What happens to the ‘patient’s voice’ when it participates in the creation of biocapital via digital health platforms? What is the significance of Olivia Banner’s concept of ‘communicative biocapitalism’ in the era of the Covid-19
‘Recovery solutions’: banking on the capitalist temporalities of the mind
In this second post responding to The Recovery Narrative: Politics and Possibilities of a Genre, Michael Flexer discusses the capitalist content and form of recovery narratives. We live in a golden age of recovery.