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..., social atomization, precarity, abandonment, and premature death under the COVID-19 pandemic. The pandemic has had especially lethal consequences for those who are impoverished, racially abjected, and deemed violable or disposable within economies of dispossession. For Indigenous peoples under US...

...-19 pandemic on cities around the world. Narrated in different styles, the individual pieces draw on theories of global cities in neoliberal times as well as on the phenomenological truths of inhabiting these disparate places bound together by a global crisis. The pieces make use of a plethora...

...Sandy Alexandre; Kimberly Juanita Brown; Kaysha Corinealdi; Eunsong Kim Abstract This collectively written essay meditates on the antimasker phenomenon, care, breath, and in-person teaching during the pandemic. I keep forgetting that I can't power walk with a mask on. Always, right after...

... across the Pacific. It focuses on a series of recent events mediated through textual and visual forms that unfold as a contemporary ethical drama between species—the human and the pig: the 2009 swine flu pandemic, a 2013 episode in which thousands of pig carcasses were found floating in Shanghai’s...

... begins after a global pandemic has destroyed most of humanity. Unlike Matheson’s novel, though, Atwood centers her postapocalyptic fiction in the sub- jectivity of two women — Toby and Ren — rather than in the masculine frontier persona of Matheson’s protagonist Richard Neville and sub­ sequent...

...Neferti X. M. Tadiar; Mark John Sanchez; Martin F. Manalansan, IV; Karen Buenavista Hanna; Gary C. Devilles; José B. Capino; Josen Masangkay Diaz; Allan Punzalan Isaac; Christine Bacareza Balance; Robert Diaz; Ferdinand Lopez; Genevieve Alva Clutario Abstract In the middle of the global pandemic...

... of negative assumptions about the lives of SRO residents. The pandemic has shocked us into awareness of our inescapable interdependencies. Therefore, it behooves us to revisit these understudied, early proponents of care—an ethics that today's mutual aid and other liberation movements often center. Pharr's...

...Jonathan Beller; Jayna Brown; Erin Manning; Minh-Ha T. Pham; Macarena Gómez-Barris; Aimee Meredith Cox; Neferti X. M. Tadiar Abstract This collectively written essay meditates on sociality, mediation, death, and life during Pandemic 2020. [email protected] [email protected]...

... in the name of science are objective, reasonable, and sane. However, this opposition belies the com- plex challenges that arise when we attempt to bring knowledge to bear upon as difficult and tragic a human situation as the AIDS pandemic...

... on both sides of the Andes. The following is part of our ongoing enlivening dialogue that continues to take place in the techno-lag time of the pandemic. It represents one piece of our ongoing collaboration. Macarena Gómez-Barris : Thinking Indigenous embodiment through your performances...

... bedrooms of my students. In response, I have begun a series of paintings that capture and collect these interactions. Each painting corresponds to a video call I have made during the pandemic and depicts the room of one of the people on my call. Sized at six by eleven inches, each painting reflects...

... the amnesiac rhythm of many contract negotiations. 40 But once immediate demands were met, the struggle fizzled and localized. During the COVID pandemic, a major New York museum again became a site of antagonism. The grassroots campaign MoMA Divest publicized board member Larry Fink's major stakes...

... even as pandemic precarity, casteism, and communalism rip the country apart. India remains in the stranglehold of a corrosive Hindutva authoritarianism, with all freedoms of dissent, gathering, protest, reform, consent, religion, and so much more continually under siege. Even as Indians shelter at home...

... of the 2009 influenza A pandemic, Dr. Margaret Chan, director- ­general of the World Health Organization, averred: “The virus writes the rules and this one, like all influenza viruses, can change the rules without rhyme or reason, at any time.”10 According to Chan’s declaration, viruses appear...

..., and officially declared a global pandemic in March. Quarantining measures across the globe led to an extreme confinement for many already isolated elders and the immunocompromised, and to a severe economic stoppage and physical lockdown affecting the informal livelihoods that sustain most of the global South...

.... Neoliberalism and the AIDS Crisis In her Neoliberalism and AIDS Crisis in Sub-Saharan Africa, Colleen O’Manique notes that “Neoliberalism is largely consistent with the bio- medical construction of AIDS, which reduces the AIDS pandemic to its individual clinical and behavioral dimensions...

... the seriousness of efforts to redeem it,” Bersani speculates.2 Attached to lesbians and gay men, especially in the wake of the AIDS pandemic, the negativity of sexual relations threatens the social order insofar as it refuses to reproduce family and kinship norms...

... and the height of the cape's COVID-19 pandemic. 26. Madonsela, “It is worse if #BulelaniQolani tactically undressed himself.” 27. Quoted in Nombembe, “We Feel Insulted.” 28. The national State of Disaster was instituted on March 15, 2020, and lifted April 5, 2022, with residual...

..., Estonia, during my spring break at Yale University, where I am a visiting professor team-teaching an architecture seminar titled “Non-compliant Bodies” with my colleague Joel Sanders. At the time of my departure from the United States, the COVID-19 pandemic seemed like something about which to remain...

.... As witnessed especially in 2020 during the first year of the COVID-19 pandemic, people may join collectives because they are ready to be supportive, yet in joining and offering care, may have relied on private structures for their own care, refraining from asking the collective for support. Leah Lakshmi...