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Showing posts with label coronavirus. Show all posts
Showing posts with label coronavirus. Show all posts
24 May 2022

On Finding Ourselves in a State of Exception (Part 2)

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Cover of the Spanish edition  (Adriana Hidalgo Editora, 2020) [a] We will have to ask ourselves the only serious question that truly matters...
18 Jan 2022

The Covid Nightmare (After D. H. Lawrence)

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The Scream of Covid-19   by Dee Tyndall (after Edvard Munch) redbubble.com       I.    He had never known fear. But in England, during the ...
22 Nov 2021

Survival in the Age of Coronavirus

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Button badge designed by Inspirer et Motiver  zazzle.com     I.    I'm pleased to see that the philosopher and cultural critic Byung-Chu...
22 Mar 2021

On Becoming a Vaccine Hero

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    One of the big differences between the old school fascism of law and order and our new age fascism of health and safety is that whereas ...
6 Nov 2020

Build Back Better

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Zen fascists will control you ...    I.    In an episode of The Inbetweeners , an increasingly frustrated Will ends up describing French ex...
6 Oct 2020

Reflections on TB in the Age of Coronavirus

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Chest x-ray of a patient with tuberculosis  showing a lesion in the upper-right lung  Zephyr / Science Photo Library     One of the positive...
19 Sept 2020

News in the Age of Coronavirus

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    My mother - though not so much my father, who was really only interested in sports - loved to watch news and discussion programmes and I...
31 Mar 2020

Fashion in the Age of Coronavirus

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Paul Fürst's famous engraving of a  plague doctor (c. 1721) People think that heroic medical and military personnel in their...
29 Mar 2020

Turn and Face the Strange (On Coronavirus and the State of Funk)

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It's interesting (to me at least) how extraordinarily relevant some of D. H. Lawrence's essays and articles still seem, even ...
28 Mar 2020

Soon It Will Be Easter

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F. N. Souza: The Deposition (1963) Oil on canvas (138 x 170.5 cm) Soon, it will be Easter ... And this year, Christ's peri...
26 Mar 2020

It's Failure to Live That Makes Us Sick (D. H. Lawrence in the Age of Coronavirus)

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Alan Bates as Birkin and Jennie Linden as Ursula Women in Love (dir. Ken Russell, 1969) In Chapter XI of Women in Love , there...
23 Mar 2020

On Keeping Calm and Carrying On in the Age of Coronavirus

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The British have long prided themselves on their sense of humour and their stoicism; their carefree ability to keep calm, carry on a...
20 Mar 2020

Mama Weer All Carers Now (Something to Reflect Upon Whilst in Self-Isolation)

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On a rather schadenfreudenistic note, it has amused me to see how the coronavirus pandemic has obliged millions of people to essenti...
15 Mar 2020

Of Priests and Pornographers in the Age of Coronavirus

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It's interesting to note how, even in the middle of a global health crisis, we can rely on the superstitious and stubborn stupidi...
14 Mar 2020

A Town Called Prato (Notes on Sino-Italian Relations in the Age of Coronavirus)

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I.  The Italian city of Prato has a long and noble history that commenced with the ancient Etruscans and is home to many museums and ...