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The Blurb On The Back:
In this exhilarating sequel to his acclaimed Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes The World, Slavoj Žižek delves into the surprising dimensions of lockdowns, quarantines, and social distancing - as well as the increasingly unruly opposition to them by a “response-fatigued” public around the world.
Žižek examines the ripple effects on the food supply of harvest failures caused by labour shortages, and the hyper-exploitation of the global class of care workers, without whose labour daily life would be impossible. Through such examples he pinpoints the inability of contemporary capitalism to safeguard effectively the public in times of crisis.
Writing with characteristic daring and zeal, Žižek ranges across critical theory, pop culture, and psychoanalysis to reveal the troubling dynamics of knowledge and power emerging in these viral times.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
The philosopher, cultural critic and sociologist Slavoj Žižek is International Director for Humanities at Birkbeck College. This brave sequel, written during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic uncertainty in 2020 and published in January 2021, tries to make sense of what’s happening and what it means for the future. It’s a time capsule whose assumptions aren’t always correct but are nonetheless useful for future historians analysing this period.
Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.
In this exhilarating sequel to his acclaimed Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes The World, Slavoj Žižek delves into the surprising dimensions of lockdowns, quarantines, and social distancing - as well as the increasingly unruly opposition to them by a “response-fatigued” public around the world.
Žižek examines the ripple effects on the food supply of harvest failures caused by labour shortages, and the hyper-exploitation of the global class of care workers, without whose labour daily life would be impossible. Through such examples he pinpoints the inability of contemporary capitalism to safeguard effectively the public in times of crisis.
Writing with characteristic daring and zeal, Žižek ranges across critical theory, pop culture, and psychoanalysis to reveal the troubling dynamics of knowledge and power emerging in these viral times.
( The Review (Cut For Spoilers): )
The Verdict:
The philosopher, cultural critic and sociologist Slavoj Žižek is International Director for Humanities at Birkbeck College. This brave sequel, written during the height of the COVID-19 pandemic uncertainty in 2020 and published in January 2021, tries to make sense of what’s happening and what it means for the future. It’s a time capsule whose assumptions aren’t always correct but are nonetheless useful for future historians analysing this period.
Thanks to the Amazon Vine Programme for the review copy of this book.
