Almost all of us have grown familiar with a certain post-pandemic malaise, where "Netflix, drugs, and delivery services have turned the twenty-first century home into a self-enclosed repository of creature comforts" (72). Why is reality fraying at the seams when everything that has ever existed is spoon-fed to all of us? How can we reckon with the absurdity of globalization, where everything can be anywhere, and the resulting political climate that has been, like everything else, reduced to identity labels.

I did enjoy this book. Jager engages with several authors and theorists familiar to the RS-sphere and his prose is dense and wordy but surprisingly easy to tear through in one or two sittings. I'm very tired so I haven't much to say at the time but I'm glad I finished this as a nonfiction palate cleanser so I can get to some of my other TBRs.