In:
Cultural Politics, Duke University Press, Vol. 17, No. 1 ( 2021-03-01), p. 145-149
Abstract:
While we disavow or renounce the virus that is ourselves in viral cultures such as a pandemic or systemic racism, we envy the viral force of others who are trending on social media. In viral cultures, we tend to think that virus is other people, forgetting our own viral potential or threat. In any case, all viral cultures make us sick; if not, we make one another sick. And when a vaccine is not available, rest is all we have at our disposal. We also tend to forget or belittle this rest. To break from viral cultures, then, this intervention calls for a general pause in human activity, which must include thinking, and which, if ever possible, would take place in common among all humans.
Type of Medium:
Online Resource
ISSN:
1743-2197
,
1751-7435
DOI:
10.1215/17432197-8797641
Language:
English
Publisher:
Duke University Press
Publication Date:
2021
SSG:
25
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