This volume provides a multi-nuanced analysis of the impact of the Covid-19 pandemic on various aspects of human existence, encompassing societal, economic, and inter-relational dimensions. It highlights a broad range of artistic and literary experiences that unfolded as a consequence of the pandemic or speak to that time.
The book revisits pandemic-induced shifts, phenomenologically, including the digitization of art and representations of creativity, -performance- anxiety, socio-political climate determined by -racial algorithms-, gaming surges, employment insecurities, mental health issues from a pedagogical materiality, and on the nature of apocalypse through literary reimaginations. It also delves into the global food crisis, reframing of family structures, and local subjectivities as lived experiences.
A unique contribution, the book will be useful for students and researchers of cultural studies, digital humanities, mass media, sociology, mental he