Pandemic! & Pandemic! 2 COVID-19 Shakes the World & Chronicles of a Time Lost - Slavoj Zizek

Written by Slavoj Zizek
Read by Jonathan Cowley
Format: M4B
Bitrate: 128 Kbps

General Information
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Title: Pandemic! & Pandemic! 2
Subtitle: COVID-19 Shakes the World & Chronicles of a Time Lost
Author: Slavoj Zizek
Reader: Jonathan Cowley
Audiobook Copyright: 2021-03-23
Publisher: Tantor Audio
Duration: 5 hrs 15 mins
ISBN: 9781666106855
Subjects: Health & Fitness, Political

File Information
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Media Format: AAC
Total Files: 1
Total Size: 292 MB
Bitrate: 128 kbps
Sample Rate: 44.1 kHz
Channels: Stereo

Book Description
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Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes the World: We live in a moment when the
greatest act of love is to stay distant from the object of your
affection. When governments renowned for ruthless cuts in public
spending can suddenly conjure up trillions. When toilet paper becomes
a commodity as precious as diamonds. And when, according to Slavoj
Žižek, a new form of communism-the outlines of which can already be
seen in the very heartlands of neoliberalism-may be the only way of
averting a descent into global barbarism. Written with his customary
brio and love of analogies in popular culture (Quentin Tarantino and
H. G. Wells sit next to Hegel and Marx), Žižek provides a concise and
provocative snapshot of the COVID-19 crisis as it widens, engulfing us
all.

Pandemic! 2: Chronicles of a Time Lost: 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.