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Viral mobilities and infrastructures of breathing in hotel quarantine, Australia

Breathing in hotel quarantine

The possibilities of breathing together amid shared and unequal vulnerabilities mobilised attention during the early years of the Covid-19 pandemic (Choy, 2020; Nguyen, 2020). In Australia, the first two years of the pandemic intensified ‘atmospheric entanglement and disentanglement’ (Brown, 2017: np) in hotels, re-purposed as places of quarantine from March 2020 to November 2021.

Your data is s**t

Welcome to the shitshow

In examining new ways for understanding the contemporary data subject, I believe the metaphor of shit is useful. It reminds us that data is a daily excretion composed of body with environment (personal with non-personal data). Like sludge (refined sewage), data excretions provoke, what I refer to here as, hygiene processes to manage storage, cleansing, and refinement, and increasingly realise inherent value (Hope, 2016).

Scattered notes on future imaginaries, collapse, and exit strategies – Part 1: On sci-fi aestheticism(s), Moon landings, and archaeologies of humankind

Introduction

In this creative writing exercise, we share a selection of short entries that blend academic references with pop culture, contemporary art, diary-like notes, and sci-fi imaginaries.       We combine texts, music, and images in a multi-sensorial journey that encourages the reader to approach our contribution with an open heart and mind.

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