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In this commentary, I challenge the popular notion of ‘resilience’ as the 21st century recipe for happiness. I do so through exploring ‘disruption’ as a political imaginary and practice, by which the narrative of resilience-equals-happiness can be disrupted. I draw on key texts that theorise about practices of ‘speculation’, ‘failure’, and ‘narration’ to situate both the personal (cognitive) ability to disrupt neoliberal subjectification processes and the systemic disruption brought about by Covid-19 as essential channels for rethinking the contemporary. I argue that this is the moment to re-imagine the templates for human co-existence and build on the personal to global experiences of disruption occasioned by global capitalism and the coronavirus, as productive, though painful, opportunities for counter-narration.
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