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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

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

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

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

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,

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.

Day 7+

…the difficulty of taking on Chomsky’s warnings about the threat to democracy is that it has already been given away because of the threat posed to it by authoritarian takeover, most latterly shown to insist in populism. …the social order henceforth and the market are coincident. No coherent political