PANDEMIC! 2 Chronicles of a Time Lost

Author: Žižek, Slavoj

Publication Date:

November 2020

Pages:

200

Original language and publisher

English | OR Books

Territories Handled

France, Netherlands, Scandinavia

Territories Sold

Denmark (Forlaget Politisk Revy)
Norway (Solum)
South Korea (Bookhouse Publishers)
Japan (P Vine)
Germany (Passagen)
Poland (Relacja)
Indonesia (Penerbit Independen)
Serbia (Akademska knjiga)

Genres

Philosophy, Society

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PANDEMIC! 2 Chronicles of a Time Lost

Author: Žižek, Slavoj

Synopsis

From coverage of the prequel, Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes the World

“An impressive feat… [Žižek] at his most powerful.” —The Guardian

“Passages of beauty… a hire-wire juxtaposition of far-left political theory and pop culture, held together by the force of [Žižek’s] rumpled charm.” —BuzzFeed

“A stimulating polemic.” —The Times Higher Education Supplement

What do sex doll sales, locust swarms, and a wired-brain pig have to do with the coronavirus pandemic? Everything—according to that “Giant of Lubliana,” the inimitable Slovenian philosopher Slavoj Žižek.

In this exhilarating sequel to his acclaimed Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes the World, Žižek delves into some of the more surprising dimensions of lockdowns, quarantines, and social distancing—and the increasingly unruly opposition to them by “response fatigued” publics around the planet.

Here, Žižek examines the ripple effects on the food supply of harvest failures caused by labor shortages and the hyper-exploitation of the global class of care workers, without whose labor daily life would be impossible. Through such examples he pinpoints the inability of contemporary capitalism to effectively safeguard 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.

Marketing Information

  • Under option: France and Netherlands

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