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134:'s being a totalising philosophy – to deploy his skills on the frontline. But this first attempt from our philosophical key-worker is forgettable." Žižek takes the pandemic to be not only an invitation to a new form of global political organisation but as a call to rethink philosophy itself. The revolutionary nature of an event like a pandemic is not merely practical but inherently theoretical as, in his own words, "we will have to experience a true philosophical revolution". 334: 273: 113:", loosely defined as the construction of a "global organisation that can control and regulate the economy" along with a "global healthcare network", both marked by a general shift away from "market mechanisms". Žižek insists that "we should resist the temptation to treat the ongoing epidemic as something that has a deeper meaning". 47: 375: 318: 399: 155: 424: 414: 404: 368: 311: 419: 429: 394: 361: 304: 31: 409: 106: 280: 123: 17: 122:
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"Pandemic! by Slavoj Žižek Review – The Philosopher Provides His Solution"
"After COVID-19 – Is an 'Alternate Society' Possible?"
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