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..., the essay surveys the growing corpus of scholarship on the Anthropocene, and, in particular, of quarantine writing, to examine the viral nature of first-person accounts of the ecocatastrophic, revealing a perpetual subjunctivity resistant to the ontological prioritization of the actual over the virtual...

... organ by organ, withered. The weeks in quarantine took his mind, his sense of time, and his safety. He suspected that others entered his room to move his papers, to steal his wall calendar, to hide his glasses, and to dirty his masks. “This is like martial law,” he’d repeat to me through the phone...

... as more idiosyncratic or thoughtful fare. The English- language re- naissance alone includes a wide range of recent fi lms, including 28 Days Later (2002), Undead (2003), Shaun of the Dead (2004), Fido (2006), Land of the Dead (2005), American Zombie (2007), Quarantine (2008...

... is itself made possible by technology. For digital natives especially, Facebook, Twitter, Snapchat, Instagram, and TikTok seem to make possible social life in the first place in the form of a miracular ecstasy of communication—truer still now with quarantines and a social life that in existing only via...

... that is not indig- enous, local, and national. We advise the user to eradicate by any means necessary species not featured on the authorized lists. We pass laws, set up quarantines, insure. Once the system is in place, it damages an extravagant process: that of evolution. You have no right, you vagabonds...

... ndings is not necessarily circumscribed by the scale of the microscopic realm.48 But somehow my exhaustive repetition and development of this point does not ward off pan- icked attempts to contain, tame, or normalize nature’s queerness, which will not be quarantined, always threatening to leak out...