Nancy K. Carty

In the past, pandemics were considered divine punishment, but we now understand the biological characteristics of viruses and we know they are spread by social interaction and the movement of people. What used to be divine has become human - all too human, as Nietzsche would say.But while the virus dispels the divine, we are discovering that living beings are much more complex and harder to define than we had previously thought, and also discovering that the nature and exercise of political power are more complex than we may have thought. And this, argues Nancy, helps us to see why the term 'biopolitics' fails to grasp the conditions in which we now find ourselves. Life and politics challenge us together. Our scientific knowledge tells us that we are dependent only on our own technical power, but can we rely on technologies when knowledge itself includes uncertainties? If this is the case for technical power, it is much more so for political power, even as it presents itself as guided

The concept of community is one heavily burdened by the events of the 20th century, frequently appropriated by totalitarian regimes for the purposes of exclusion and oppression. In this dialogue with

光彌對於母親沒有事先跟自己商量，就決定要再婚一事感到不滿，因而萌生一個人過活的念頭。喜愛畫畫的他有一天爬到一座山頂的樹上寫生，卻因為打雷的關係摔到地上當場不醒人事。當他醒過來時，發現自己身在一個不認識的人的家裡，好巧不巧，那個人的姓氏竟然跟母親再婚的對象一樣！面對這種意外狀況，光彌會有什麼反應？

新聞社的高中女孩‧小川里。溫和親切的她總是可以迅速融入人群。但她的童年玩伴片岡因為耳朵太靈敏，人又有點孤僻，結果跟週遭的人格格不入，讓她很擔心。新聞社的學長近野為了收集報導用的題材，找上小里幫忙，順便也要片岡一起加入。小里認為這是讓片岡交朋友的好機會，於是她非常積極地想促進學長與片岡的感情。一共收錄系列短篇四作。

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Padre Pio died September 23, 1968, his funeral attended by over 100,000 people. During the fifty-eight years he was a priest, his monastery at San Giovanni Rotondo, Italy, became a mecca for pilgrim