What story is being told by Covid-19? Leo Cookman considers how narrative theory can help us makes sense of the pandemic and how the political battle to determine the story of Covid must be waged.
The Covid Narratives
“You know Homer, it’s very easy to criticize!” – a Hegelian justification for playing the blame game
Stuart Bennett on the why the current crisis means it real is time to start playing the blame game.
Artists and Workers Isolate and Unite!
Mike Watson sets out a path for an artist's response to the pandemic and how it might provide unexpected energy for the political Left.
There’s Nothing Exceptional to the State of Exception: An Analysis of Race and Media Representation Amidst the Covid-19 Outbreak
Dan Bristow, Tom Hobson, and Kaajal Modi discuss the states of exception that have been imposed across Europe, the racist imaginaries surrounding the pandemic and why its more important than ever to make sure this crisis is seen as deeply political.
Divided Subjectivity/Divided Subjection: Class Analysis in an Epidemic
Daniel Bristow on the need for class politics in the midst of coronavirus and why we need to remember the often exploited key worker long after the end of the crisis.
The COVID-19 Pandemic and Its Response in the UK
A virus is exposing how much Western society is permeated with influential people who have deluded themselves into thinking that their ability to manipulate words, images, and sounds gives them the ability to control reality itself. Thomas Hobson and Daniel Bristow consider.
