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days 21, 22: or an institution is defined by its freedoms

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,
Simon Taylor 17 Apr 2020

on the amputation of infected members of society, III, day 20

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
Simon Taylor 15 Apr 2020

on the amputation of infected members of society, part II, day 19

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
Simon Taylor 14 Apr 2020

enjoy your resurrection, day 17, into day 18

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
Simon Taylor 12 Apr 2020

what does Rona (thanks M.) tell us about mor(t)ality? days 14, 15, 16

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
Simon Taylor 11 Apr 2020

we must in a world we cannot, days 10, 11 & 12, 13

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,
Simon Taylor 08 Apr 2020

day 8 or the impossible – goes into day 9 or CANNOT

Dear reader, As you will by now already be aware, approximately 2 billion of earth’s human inhabitants have found themselves under voluntary or enforced, and everything along the continuum, home arrest, otherwise called ‘self isolation.’ These have also had foisted upon them a physical noncontact zone called ‘social distancing.
Simon Taylor 03 Apr 2020

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