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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.

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.

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