Posts tagged Covid-19
Pestilential Theologies: On the Grand Narrative of Our Time
Pestilential Theologies: On the Grand Narrative of Our Time

Mid-plague, it’s fairly easy to view an infection, seemingly from nowhere, as something like the judgment of god: as a sentence handed down that one has been insufficiently rigorous in the measures that they have been taking. It’s easy to look at it this way, because looking at it without this narrative framework is daunting: one in six Americans is Covid-positive. At this point, an individual isn’t really able to remain completely safe: you’re just bending probability curves slightly.

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CommentaryCameron Summerspostmodernism, Covid-19, Jean-Francois Lyotard, Talking Heads, Arthur Miller, politicsComment
Saying "No" to the World: The Sclerosis of the Modern State
Saying "No" to the World: The Sclerosis of the Modern State

There’s a lot of reason to feel gloomy about the world. It feels like we’re back where we started. This summer has been unprecedentedly hot and unpleasant in some parts of the world (the heat wave in the pacific northwest has been terrible, obviously – but some parts of Russia above the arctic circle recorded temperatures as high as 48 Celsius. That’s 118 degrees Fahrenheit.) What we see is that, throughout the world, but especially in North America and Western Europe, there is a dwindling of state capacity. We can see this in response to the Coronavirus pandemic, we have seen this in regard to climate change.

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CommentaryCameron SummersCovid-19, climate change, The Shock Doctrine, Naomi Klein, Neoreaction a Basilisk, Elizabeth Sandifer, George W. Bush, If Crisis Or War Comes, TRASHFUTUREComment
We Must Remember This: On the Edge of the After Times
We Must Remember This: On the Edge of the After Times

The vaccination was the sort of surreal experience that most of the past year has been characterized by, a jumble of elements that don’t really seem to have much to do with one another all jammed up one atop the other into a confusing melange. While the past year has been full of anxiety, and many unnecessary deaths, the moments where these elements are far from my mind seem to be characterized by this sort of mostly-benign irrealism.

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Analysis, Written by: CameronCameron SummersMemory, Covid-19, Hauntology, Brunch, Naomi Klein, Mark Fisher, Antonio GramsciComment