Covid-19 and the Left: The Tyranny of Fear

This book examines the rise of a new form of emergency capitalism in the face of the Covid-19 pandemic, exploring the Left’s abandonment of its self-understanding as a critical force against unfettered capital accumulation, social discrimination and state power, and its adoption of a position aligned with the neoliberal consensus.

Elena Louisa Lange is a philosopher and political commentator. She was lecturer and Assistant Professor of Japanese Studies at the University of Zurich until 2022. She is the author of Value without Fetish: Uno Kōzō’s Theory of ’Pure Capitalism’ in Light of Marx’s Critique of Political Economy (2021) and co- editor of Conformist Rebellion - Marxist Critiques of the Contemporary Left (2022) and several collections on Asian philosophy. Today, she is the editor-in-chief of Café Américain, a new political magazine.

Geoff Shullenberger is a cultural theorist, managing editor of Compact magazine, and host of the Outsider Theory podcast. He was formerly Clinical Associate Professor in the Expository Writing Program at New York University, USA. He has written extensively about the intersection of cultural theory and the internet, the decline of academia, conspiracy theory, the recent evolution of a biopolitical technocracy, and more. His work has appeared in various outlets, including American Affairs, UnHerd, Tablet, The New Atlantis, and others.