ABSTRACT
The Covid-19 pandemic is the latest in a series of global shocks, following the gathering storm of environmental crises and the financial disaster of 2008 and its aftermath. After the pandemic, people and societies may be too fatigued, too stressed and too preoccupied to undertake the hard and uncertain work of building a better world; the desire to ‘get back to normal’, to the way things were before Covid-19, may overwhelm voices calling for profound change. The zombie may even seek new life, battening onto opportunities for profit afforded by the pandemic. Historically, pandemics have forced humans to break with the past and imagine their world anew.
