Everything must change! : the world after covid-19 / Ávila. Renata, Srecko Horvat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ávila, Renata, author.

Horvat, Srećko, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

COVID-19 (Disease).

Physical Description:

1 online resource (246 pages) : illustrations

Place of Publication:

New York, New York ; London, England : OR Books, [2020]

Summary:

Everything Must Change! brings together prominent commentators from around the world to present a rich and nuanced weighing of progressive possibilities in the wake of the COVID-19 pandemic. In these pages you'll encounter influential voices across the left, ranging from Roger Waters to Noam Chomsky, Slavoj Žižek to Saskia Sassen. Gael García Bernal, Brian Eno, and Larry Charles examine the pandemic's more cultural and artistic consequences, touching on topics of love, play, comedy, dreaming, and time. Their words sit alongside analyses of the paradoxes and possibilities of debt, internationalism, and solidarity by Astra Taylor, David Graeber, Vijay Prashad, and Stephanie Kelton. Burgeoning surveillance and control measures in the name of public health are a concern for many of the contributors here, including Shoshana Zuboff and Evgeny Morozov, as are the opportunities presented by the crisis for exploitation by financiers, technocrats, and the far right. Against a return to the normal and, indeed, the notion that there ever was such a thing, these conversations insist that urgent, systemic change is needed to tackle not only the pandemics arising from the human destruction of nature, but also the ceaseless debilitations of contemporary global capitalism.

Contents:

Front Cover

Back Cover

Half-Title Page

Title Page

Copyright Page

Contents

Introduction

1. The Cost of Covid-19 Must Not Bankrupt the People- Vijay Prashad &amp

Srećko Horvat, March 24, 2020

2. Hope and Humor in Times of Coronavirus- Larry Charles &amp

Srećko Horvat, March 25, 2020

3. Covid-19: What Is at Stake?-Noam Chomsky &amp

4. The Flames of Truth: Julian Assange-John Shipton &amp

Srećko Horvat, March 26, 2020

5. Is This the Beginning of a Possibility?-Saskia Sassen &amp

Srećko Horvat, March 27, 2020

6. Love in the Time of Coronavirus-Gael García Bernal &amp

Srećko Horvat, March 28, 2020

7. Corona-Neo-Fascism: A Deadly Combination- Ece Temelkuran &amp

Srećko Horvat, March 29, 2020

8. Why We Must Save Julian Assange- Stefania Maurizi &amp

Ivana Nenadović, March 30, 2020

9. Communism or Barbarism, It's That Simple- Slavoj Žižek &amp

Renata Ávila, March 31, 2020

10. Digital Colonialism and Covid-19-Renata Ávila &amp

Saša Savanović, April 1, 2020

11. The Fall of Public Man 2020-Richard Sennett &amp

Srećko Horvat, April 2, 2020

12. Internationalism in a Pandemic- Astra Taylor &amp

David Adler, April 4, 2020

13. Reflecting on Our Post-Virus World-Brian Eno &amp

Yanis Varoufakis, April 4, 2020

14. Capitalism, Covid-19, and the US Election- Jeremy Scahill &amp

Srećko Horvat, April 4, 2020

15. Tech in the Time of a Pandemic-Evgeny Morozov &amp

Renata Ávila, April 11, 2020

16. Capitalism Depresses the Soul, Not Just the Economy- Johann Hari &amp

Yanis Varoufakis, April 13, 2020

17. Debt, Bullshit Jobs, and Political Self-Organization- David Graeber &amp

Maja Kantar, April 15, 2020

18. Covid-1984 and Surveillance Capitalism- Shoshana Zuboff &amp

Renata Ávila, April 18, 2020.

19. Snake Oil or Socialism?-Roger Waters &amp

Yanis Varoufakis, April 20, 2020

20. The Urgent Global Need for Whistleblowers- Daniel Ellsberg &amp

Angela Richter, April 21, 2020

21. The Lucrative Lies Underpinning Money and Debt Creation- Stephanie Kelton &amp

Yanis Varoufakis, April 27, 2020

22. Visible Skies Above, a Tsunami of Banalities Below- Tariq Ali &amp

Maja Pelević, April 28, 2020

23. Language Is a Virus: On the Avant-Garde and Archiving- Kenneth Goldsmith &amp

Srećko Horvat, May 8, 2020

Afterword-Renata Ávila

The Editors and the Contributors.

Notes:

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-68219-248-2

OCLC:

1243546818