Debates

Glance at any major news source homepage right now, and you’re bound to see a headline photo of mask-clad passengers being temperature scanned while in line for their flights, or …
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I am alone during this COVID-19 pandemic, like many others. My family spreads across two continents and I recently took residence on a third, a move coinciding with a new …
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The unfolding global crisis induced by COVID-19 has led states to scramble as they collect scarce medical resources, impose business shutdowns and national quarantines, and close off borders to slow …
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Communovirus

Jean-Luc Nancy

–translated by Victoria Derrien–

An Indian friend tells me that at his place people talk about the communovirus. How come no one thought of it before? It’s …
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There was at the time—not at the other end of the earth, but in its heart—not an island, but a city. It was called Florence. And on the off chance …
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When I was growing up in Puerto Rico, more than thirty years ago, I heard a cruel joke attributed to the Cuban comedian Álvarez Guedes. The joke relied on the …
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The coronavirus epidemic confronts us with two opposed figures that prevail in our daily lives: those who are overworked to exhaustion (medical stuff, caretakers…) and those who have nothing to …
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When the notion of ‘biopolitics’ was first introduced into public discourse, it was greeted with some skepticism. It seemed like a hardly verifiable concept. But, then, the situation changed rapidly. …
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There are two main lanes in an adult’s life. The first lane leads to success, career and money; and the other lane, which is more of a roundabout, revolves around …
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During these days (rather these weeks, these months) of self-quarantining and social distancing, movies promise to kill time.  There are lists of movies about contagions and lists of movies that …
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