Renowned Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben collects all of his fierce passionate and deeply personal interventions regarding the 2020 health emergency as it played out in Italy and across the world. Alongside and beyond accusations these texts variously reflect upon the great transformation affecting Western democracies. In the name of biosecurity and health the model of bourgeois democracytogether with its rights parliaments and constitutionsis everywhere surrendering to a new despotism whe