{"product_id":"9780228020813-pause-the","title":"The Pause","description":"\u003cmeta content=\"text\/html; charset=utf-8\" http-equiv=\"Content-Type\"\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eExperiencing Time Interrupted\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen COVID-19 spread across the globe, protection measures such as social distancing, self-isolation, and self-quarantine were experienced as life on hold. A cultural inquiry into the moment of pausing and its social, political, and personal manifestations, \u003cem\u003eThe Pause\u003c\/em\u003e captures the experience of being inside the pandemic even as that experience continues to unfold.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhen COVID-19 spread across the globe, people experienced protection measures such as social distancing, self-isolation, and self-quarantine as a kind of shutting down or putting on hold of life. Many referred to this experience as a pause.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eCalling attention to the long history of grappling with pausing in writing on plagues and pandemics, Julian Haladyn explores the pause in its social, political, and personal manifestations over the extended pandemic. The schism between the virus and its prohibitions on human engagement with the world produced a crisis, Haladyn argues, in which, for an extended time, it was impossible to imagine a future. \u003cem\u003eThe Pause\u003c\/em\u003e is a cultural inquiry into a moment when human life around the globe seemed to halt, as well as the social symptoms that defined it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eThe Pause\u003c\/em\u003e captures the experience of being inside the pandemic, even as that experience continues to unfold. It regards our current situation not for what it may become in the future, but rather as a moment of mass uncertainty and existential hesitation.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Rarewaves","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":55110058901878,"sku":"9780228020813","price":16.68,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0092\/7504\/8033\/files\/orig_40316196.jpg?v=1773314975","url":"https:\/\/www.rarewaves.com\/products\/9780228020813-pause-the","provider":"Rarewaves.com","version":"1.0","type":"link"}