Nothing New Here to See: How COVID-19 and State Violence Converge on Black Life

This essay argues that the catastrophe of COVID-19 resides in an already existing state-derived practice of antiblack racism. The antiblackness of this moment is compounded by state processes of antiblack abandonment in which Black people have been the foundation for neoliberal capitalist reordering. Along with police violence and other state violences, especially that of the violence of health disparities, the era of COVID-19 to highlights the spectacular ways in which multiple forms of violence underwritten by capitalism renders Black lives a deathly existence.