During the long months of the pandemic, for many of us, the very understandable and very human desire to “return to normal” has been tempered by the political awareness that such a return was not only impossible but also undesirable, that normality itself, as protesters in Chile loudly proclaimed, is indeed the problem. The common theme of the protests that shook the pandemic lockdowns of 2020, from Santiago to Minneapolis, was precisely that it was the very assumptions informing contemporary social relationships that had to be completely rethought and replaced. That it could not be any more a question of reforming specific practices and rules—be they those of the neoliberal economy or of the police state—or of providing some extra welfare benefits in times of crisis; it was the way we think about our world, the forms of its politics, and the discourse legitimizing them that needed to be...

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