COVID-19
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.
Pandemic times. A conversation with Lisa Baraitser about the temporal politics of COVID-19
Introduction
Lisa Baraitser is Professor of Psychosocial Theory at Birkbeck, University of London. In her research, she combines psychoanalytic and social theories to address the temporal, ethical and affective dimensions of care. In this interview, Prof. Baraitser helps us think through the temporal politics of COVID-19 and the ways in which pandemic conditions transform the affective dimensions of care work in Europe and US-America.
Quarantined ideas
The current pandemic is coming to redefine our lives in so many ways, both real and symbolic. It has already changed the way we travel, the way we work, the way we live. And it will continue to have far-reaching effects on all of us for the foreseeable future. In the face of the current re-organization of public and private life on an unprecedented scale, ephemera’s editorial collective has made the decision to cancel one issue and postpone forthcoming issues by three months.
