

Pandemic! & Pandemic! 2
COVID-19 Shakes the World & Chronicles of a Time Lost
Author: Slavoj Zizek
Narrator: Jonathan Cowley
Unabridged: 5 hr 15 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 03/23/2021
Categories: Nonfiction, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Medical
Synopsis
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.