COVID-19 and the Left : The Tyranny of Fear (Paperback)

Introduction: the tyranny of fear: the historical rupture of the COVID-19 pandemic and the left’s response Part one: Orientation: the politics, culture, and ideology of fear 1. From the void to COVID: explaining the left’s support for pandemic authoritarianism 2. The revenge of the hyperreal: the simulation of crisis and contemporary left politics 3. The return of ‘doublethink’: how George Orwell’s dystopia became the cue for COVID-19 ideology and the left’s power grab Part two: Covid and Emergency Capitalism 4. The rise of the COVID-19 industrial complex 5. Bureaucratic momentum and COVID-19 6. COVID-10 and the emergency loop of implosive capitalism Part three: COVID-19 and the left in Canada, the UK, Germany, and Australia 7. The opera of the phantoms: how the Canadian political establishment memed itself into absurdity 8. The professional-managerial class in the UK: managing the ‘Covoid’ 9. The German left as Schmittians: how the state of emergency became an ‘anti-fascist’ paradigm 10. Middle-class consciousness: COVID-19 measures and their social base in Australia