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cord-028922-phmtkpu0	Whitcomb, Caroline Green	Review of Slavoj Žižek (2020). Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes the World: New York and London: OR Books. 140 pp. ISBN 9781682193013 (Paperback)	2020-07-10		.txt	text/plain	2121	136	71	Reading Slavoj Žižek's (2020) Pandemic!: COVID-19 Shakes the World, I began to see I was not alone in my recent psychic intensities and the resulting questions (Bollas 2002: 48) . In Žižek's second chapter, 'Why Are We Tired All the Time?', he describes three groups of workers: 'self-employed and self-exploited workers in the developed West, debilitating assembly line work in the Third World, [and] the growing domain of human care workers in all its forms where exploitation abounds...Each of the three groups implies a specific mode of being tired and overworked' (23). In the USA, Žižek's hope for a unified humanity appears to be an unrealized dream. While we have not unified humanity, maybe the pandemic driven discovery of the necessity of quiet time, personal coping tools, authentic love, and the beauty of basics will move us one step closer towards each other and Žižek's vision of global solidarity.	./cache/cord-028922-phmtkpu0.txt	./txt/cord-028922-phmtkpu0.txt