Simon Taylor

Now when it comes to community do we not normally consider it to be ours? When we think of it are we not drawn to think of community as this one in particular of which we are a part, to which we belong? And then when the association is invoked,

I wrote that poverty is like a disease. But that it is one much easier to contain than COVID-19. Although the same technologies are in practice engaged in  containing it. These technologies include education and “contact tracing.” Among others: Rt. Hon. Ardern pointed to story-telling, a technique so venerable noone

They are casting their problems at society. And, you know, there’s no such thing as society. There are individual men and women and there are families. And no government can do anything except through people, and people must look after themselves first. It is our duty to look after

Once resurrected then what? And what bits will be and which won’t? What will society lose? the weakest and most vulnerable? …or the sense that they are… having lost the sense of their welfare being our responsibility and of our meaning society. There may never have been any society

I just read that Hal Willner–genius of collaboration–died of symptoms consistent with C-19 (as M. relates, Rona, in Oz). See this, since we are in one: And this: And: It is also shocking to read that named celebrities are being COVID-ed, coveted, and their deaths converted to the

I have moved some of my comments onto the <<empyre>> listserv this past several days, named a soft_skinned_space by Melinda Rackham its founder, in Melbourne, 2002, now based at Cornell. I was moved to pass on Levi Bryant’s article “A World is Ending,