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Pandemic! 2: Chronicles of a Time Lost QUOTES

Pandemic! 2: Chronicles of a Time Lost QUOTES

1 " As Alenka Zupančič put it, the problem with the idea of the end of the world is the same as with Fukuyama’s end of history: the end itself doesn’t end, we just get stuck in a weird immobility. The secret wish of us all, what we think about all the time, is only one thing: when will it end? But it will not end: it is reasonable to see the ongoing pandemic as announcing a new era of ecological troubles. "

― Slavoj Žižek , Pandemic! 2: Chronicles of a Time Lost

2 " The prospect of Neuralink thus ideally fits the vision of a new society in which human beings are bodily isolated, living in protective bubbles, and simultaneously sharing the same mental space—in our psychic lives, we will be closer to each other than ever before. What we need now is not only more physical proximity to others but more psychic distance from them. "

― Slavoj Žižek , Pandemic! 2: Chronicles of a Time Lost

3 " designate this class, Bruno Latour and Nikolaj Schultz coined the term “geo-social class.”3 Much of this class is not exploited in the classic Marxist sense of working for those who own the means of production; they are “exploited” with regard to the way they relate to the material conditions of their life: access to water and clean air, health, safety, Local "

― Slavoj Žižek , Pandemic! 2: Chronicles of a Time Lost