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Toward Sick Futurity: Ill wisdom for liberation
View article: Toward Sick Futurity: Ill wisdom for liberationIn the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, North Americans became familiar with the idea that people with underlying conditions were at increased risk for severe COVID infections. Talk of underlying conditions was a constant refrain across news media, public health missives, and social media posts. “Underlying conditions” became an awareness campaign, it became a…
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Navigating the Unreal: Virtual Reality in Psychiatric Treatment
View article: Navigating the Unreal: Virtual Reality in Psychiatric Treatment“Three men are constantly speaking to me behind my right ear,” says Pia Oxenvad, a young woman experiencing auditory hallucinations. “It feels like they are standing right behind me,” she explains, while indicating with her right hand precisely where the voices seem to be lurking.[1] To Pia, the voices are real, an experiential and always…
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Multispecies Anxiety in France’s Bedbug Autumn
View article: Multispecies Anxiety in France’s Bedbug AutumnIn the final evening of an archival research trip across France last September, I was thrilled to see that a cinema in Quartier Latin was screening Atlantic City (1980), one of the few films by Louis Malle that I had never watched on the big screen and was likely never going to be able to…
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