This multi-authored contribution explores what the COVID-19 pandemic demands of critical inquiry with a focus on the more-than-human. We show how COVID-19 is a complex series of multispecies encounters shaped by humans, non-human animals, and of course viruses. Central to these encounters is a politics of difference in which certain human lives are protected and helped to flourish while others, both human and animal, are forgotten if not sacrificed. Such difference encompasses practices of racialisation and racism, healthcare austerity, the circulation of capital, border-making, intervention into non-human nature, wildlife trade bans, anthropocentrism, and the exploitation of animal test subjects. The contributions highlight how COVID-19 provides a needed opportunity to unite new materialist and anti-racist, anti-colonial scholarship as well as reimagine more radically sustainable multispecies futures. This requires embracing anti-colonial humility, confronting debts owed to lab animal frontline workers, and rethinking economic systems that helped unleash COVID-19 and ensured it became a disaster.

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对 COVID-19 的超越人类和深刻人类的观点

这篇多作者的文章探讨了 COVID-19 大流行对批判性调查的要求，重点是超越人类。我们展示了 COVID-19 如何是由人类、非人类动物，当然还有病毒塑造的一系列复杂的多物种相遇。这些相遇的核心是一种差异政治，在这种政治中，某些人的生命得到保护并得到帮助，而其他人的生命，无论是人类还是动物，如果不被牺牲，就会被遗忘。这种差异包括种族化和种族主义、医疗紧缩、资本流通、边界建设、对非人性的干预、野生动物贸易禁令、人类中心主义和对动物试验对象的剥削。这些贡献强调了 COVID-19 如何提供必要的机会来团结新的唯物主义者和反种族主义者，反殖民学术以及重新构想更具可持续性的多物种未来。这需要接受反殖民主义的谦逊，面对欠实验室动物前线工作人员的债务，并重新思考有助于释放 COVID-19 并确保它成为一场灾难的经济体系。