Navigating Chaos: Living the Apocalyptic Dystopia (Editors’ Note)
Deeksha Suri | University of Delhi | ORCiD ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2977-9543
Faizan Moquim | Guru Gobind Singh Indraprastha University | ORCiD ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7698-1656
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.71106/VZTT3566
Publication: Volume 4 Issue 1
Excerpt | One of the things uncovered with the continued onslaught of COVID-19 pandemic is the inadequacy of our institutional achievements amidst tales of individual endurance and support for each other. The scale and severity of the virus’s collision with our postmodern reality, threatening the collapse of existing social systems of our world, asks us to reassess the direction in which we, as a society, have been moving. The pandemic has revealed itself to be, what Jean-Luc Nancy calls, a “magnifying mirror” that provides our world an opportunity to re-cognize itself in its reflection. The present, patterned simultaneously around both the technological and the apocalyptic, however, has offered but slight modifications in existing interpretive paradigms. The fear of an imminent apocalyptic change, on the level of instinct at least, has wedged us between two conceptions of world: one on the verge of end, and the other too defeatist in its conception. This instinctual realization of an abyssal crisis of thought makes it difficult to imagine a secure future for human subject who shows an increasing disconnect between itself and its world.
Key words | Enlightenment, Counter-Enlightenment, Romanticism, Monochromatic Interpretations, Scepticism, Postmodern, Apocalyptic, Utopia, Dystopia, Rational Subject, COVID-19 Pandemic
Deeksha Suri (deeksha.suri80@gmail.com)
Faizan Moquim (faizan.moquim@gmail.com)
MLA Citation for this Article:
Suri, Deeksha, and Faizan Moquim. “Navigating Chaos: Living the Apocalyptic Dystopia (Editors’ Note).” Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies, vol. 4, no. 1, 1 Nov. 2020, pp. vii-ix, https://doi.org/10.71106/VZTT3566.