Viralscapes. The bodies of others after COVID-19
The COVID-19 pandemic reveals a vital-lethal entanglement of human and nonhuman bodies at a global scale. This post first draws attention on how different…
Read MoreThe COVID-19 pandemic reveals a vital-lethal entanglement of human and nonhuman bodies at a global scale. This post first draws attention on how different…
Read MoreIn the classic origin tale of “The Box” and its seductions, Pandora is driven by curiosity—a distinctly feminized will to knowledge—to unleash chaos on…
Read MoreI have been – like anyone else in Italy – in quarantine for the past three weeks. Optimistically, Italy will be on lockdown for…
Read MoreOnce again, in November 2019, I found myself in an SJVN waiting room. But it was a new waiting room. Many things had changed…
Read MoreRoad building in the Maldives – an archipelago of small coralline islands – sounds a bit like a euphemism for a ridiculous task. Maldivian…
Read MoreThis essay was written seated on my couch, trying to make sense of the contemporary ‘state of emergency’ as the world around me has…
Read More“Lena, you can turn on the camera now.” The view of the space station changes from monitor to film image. The opening scene of…
Read MoreWritten in lockdown amid the pandemic, this post speculates about the political and epistemological implications of ‘middle-class’ reactions to the present crisis. It is…
Read More“I still need to cross Attabad before I reach home” – so our Shimshali travel companion commented matter-of-factly. We had just spent ten days…
Read MoreMany academic disciplines have a lot to say these days about COVID-19. There are the medical experts, of course, epidemiologists, virologists, microbiologists, weighing in…
Read MoreThe side of a road is a good place for ethnography, we think. One of us owns a field next to a country road….
Read MoreOn February 20th, Allies Julie Billaud, Alessandro Chidichimo, Miriam Odoni, Marie-Claire Peytrignet, together with other members of the Swiss-based non-profit association Programme Indépendant de…
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