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Month: March 2020

March 26, 2020January 13, 2021Mihnea Tanasescu

Viral Political Ecology IV

In one of the posts in this series I spoke about the loss of horizon, the feeling of dread at a seemingly never-ending crisis. Here I want to think further about the possibility of a future beyond crises. More precisely, I am interested in the necessity of thinking the long term, despite the requirements of […]

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March 23, 2020January 13, 2021Mihnea Tanasescu

Viral Political Ecology III

The intrusion of the coronavirus and the disruption caused in response are excellent occasions for mapping the cracks of the present system. There is nothing better than a crisis to force a reckoning. In the last two posts, I started thinking critically about what the current moment means. Here, I want to continue that reflection […]

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March 18, 2020January 13, 2021Mihnea Tanasescu

Viral Political Ecology II

The last weeks have continued to be dominated by a dizzying amount of covid-19 news. It seems as if the whole world is caught in a series of parallel accelerating spirals: one country after another goes from urging caution to shutting all activities down (or, more precisely, trying to move them online). The speed of […]

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March 10, 2020January 13, 2021Mihnea Tanasescu

Viral Political Ecology

The developing coronavirus pandemic has been hogging attention for weeks now. Many simple observers are incredulous that governments, like Italy’s, will willfully paralyze their economies in order to stem the transmission of a pathogen that is far from the deadliest in the long history of human pathogens. That being said, it is very hard for […]

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