Title & Author:

There is no society? : individuals and community in pandemic times / edited by Ekaterina Degot and David Riff.

Publication:

Cologne : Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther und Franz König, [2021]
©2021

Description:

216 pages ; 22 cm

Notes:
Published in conjunction with Steirischer Herbst Festival, held at Steirischer Herbst '20-Paranoia TV, Graz, September 24 - October 18, 2020.
Includes bibliographical references.
Introduction : Navigating the "New Normal" / Ekaterina Degot and David Riff -- Threshold/Poetry / Frano "Bifo" Berardi -- Lives and the Cost of Lives / Eva Illouz -- Comrades! Even Now I'm Not Ashamed of My Anarchist Future! / Srećko Horvat -- Reinventing the Politics of Friendship in a "Post-Society" : Spinoza's Cloak and My Cardigan / Ece Temelkuran -- Corona Envy and the Violence of the Pandemic / Renata Salecl -- Paranoic Subjectivity and the Hatred of Greatness / Robert Pfaller -- The Paranoia of the Western Mind / Milo Rau in conversation with Achille Mbembe -- A Way Out of This Tunnel of Horror -- Solidarity in Times of Crisis / Natascha Strobl -- A Touch Too Much : Animals of the Pandemic / Fahim Amir -- Re-Enchanting the World : Technology, the Body, and the Construction of the Commons / Silvia Federici -- How to Leave the Theater without Getting Beheaded / Nika Dubrovsky.

Summary:

The success of "social distancing" as a cure-all to the COVID-19 pandemic proves that neoliberalism has created an insurmountable distance to the very notion of society itself. This rejection is best embodied in Margaret Thatcher's infamous dictum "There is no society", which supplies the title of this anthology, with a crucial question mark added. How can we deal with the paradoxical mix of solitude and imposed togetherness that the pandemic entails? How can culture and critical discourse even continue when public space has been shut down upon the advice of epidemiologists? How do we grasp the new political constellations arising today? Such are the questions tackled by the authors of this anthology, based on the discussion program of the Paranoia TV edition of the steirischer herbst festival. Exhibition: steirischer herbst '20-Paranoia TV, Graz, Austria (2020).

ISBN:

3753300462 (paperback)
9783753300467 (paperback)

Subject:

Social change.
Social distance.
Social distancing (Public health)
COVID-19 Pandemic, 2020-2023 Social aspects.
Isolation (Philosophy)
Alienation (Philosophy)
Art and society Exhibitions.
Isolation (Philosophy) in art Exhibitions.
Alienation (Philosophy) in art Exhibitions.
Physical Distancing
Distance sociale.
Distanciation physique (Santé publique)
Pandémie de COVID-19, 2020-2023 Aspect social.
Isolement (Philosophie)
Aliénation (Philosophie)
Art et société Expositions.
Art and society

Form/genre:

Exhibition
exhibition catalogs.
Exhibition catalogs
Catalogues d'exposition.

Added entries:

Degotʹ, Ekaterina, editor.
Riff, David, editor.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 319630
Call No.: 319630
Copy: 1
Status: Available