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Slavoj Žižek. Pandemic! 2
CONTENTS
Guide
Pages
PANDEMIC! 2. Chronicles of a Time Lost
Dedication
INTRODUCTION WHY A PHILOSOPHER SHOULD WRITE ABOUT BRINGING IN THE HARVEST
1. WHAT WE DON’T KNOW, WHAT WE DON’T WANT TO KNOW, AND WHAT WE CAN DO
2. THE FIRST OF MAY IN THE VIRAL WORLD
3. COVID-19, GLOBAL WARMING, EXPLOITATION—THE SAME STRUGGLE
4. WHY DESTROYING MONUMENTS IS NOT RADICAL ENOUGH
5. FATHER … OR WORSE
6. SEX IN THE AGE OF SOCIAL DISTANCING
7. THE (NOT SO) BRAVE NEW WORLD OF PIGS AND MEN
8. A NO-TOUCH FUTURE? NO, THANKS!
9. WHERE ARE GRETA AND BERNIE?
10. WHAT MOVIE IS NOW PLAYING OUT IN REAL LIFE?
11. DEATHS IN PARADISE
12. NOW WE LIVE IN A STORE OF THE WORLDS
13. YES, RED PILL … BUT WHICH ONE?
14. SIMPLE THINGS THAT ARE HARD TO DO
(NO TIME) TO CONCLUDE: THE WILL NOT TO KNOW
APPENDIX: FOUR REFLECTIONS ON POWER, APPEARANCE, AND OBSCENITY
The New Obscene Master
Oppression, Repression, Depression
The New Populism Is Not Fascism
The Crisis of New Populism
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SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK
The same bad smell is spreading all around the world. In late spring of 2020, something is rotting in the Southern state of Tennessee—tons and tons of unpicked fruits and vegetables. Why? Because 100 percent of the workforce at one farm in Tennessee, nearly 200 employees in total, tested positive for Covid-19 after one of the workers came down with the virus.1
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At this point, I can hear the laughter of my critics (as well as some friends) who mockingly note how the pandemic means that my time as a philosopher is over: who cares about a Lacanian reading of Hegel when the foundations of our existence are threatened? Even Žižek now has to focus on how to bring in the harvest.
But these critics couldn’t be more wrong. The ongoing pandemic hasn’t just brought out social and economic conflicts that were raging beneath the surface all along; it hasn’t just confronted us with immense political problems. More and more, it has become a genuine conflict of global visions about society. At the beginning of the crisis, it looked as if a kind of basic global solidarity, with the accent on helping those most threatened, would prevail; however, as John Authers puts it, this solidarity has gradually “given way to a bitter factional and cultural battle, with rival moral principles hurled like metaphysical grenades. Different countries have taken antithetical approaches while the US has split itself almost into two nations, divided between those who wear masks and those who do not.”2
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