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A weekly compilation of COVID-19-related materials across text, audio, and video formats.

Stories about time shifted, folded and shared, the extraordinary ordinary, and keeping separate and being a-part.

Short adventures into our planet’s toxic sensorium, by Africanists and some of their scholarly kin.‬

Telling Stories and Shaping Knowledge: Reflections on the tensions between the general and the particular.‬

‪Itemizing the technological present: A series of short entries from scholars on the classical and contemporary sites in medicine and science.‬

Where Has SARS Gone? The Strange Case of the Disappearing Coronavirus
Very, very mild: Covid-19 symptoms and illness classification
The Unconscious: Metaphor and Metonymy
Seth Holmes' Fresh Fruit, Broken Bodies
COVID-19 Forum: Introduction
How Whiteness Works: JAMA and the Refusals of White Supremacy
Varieties of Tulpa Experiences: Sentient Imaginary Friends, Embodied Joint Attention, and Hypnotic Sociality in a Wired World
A reader’s guide to the “ontological turn” – Part 1
Philippe Descola's Beyond Nature and Culture
A reader’s guide to the “ontological turn” – Part 4

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