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Touch in the Time of Corona - Reflections on Love, Care, and Vulnerability in the Pandemic (Paperback)
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Touch in the Time of Corona - Reflections on Love, Care, and Vulnerability in the Pandemic (Paperback)
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A chronicle, a memoir, a reflection on the pandemic, and a cultural
analysis of the new spatial, social, and epistemological forms that
have arisen with it, this volume weaves together cultural history,
aesthetics, and urban and digital studies. It looks at the
particular ways in which the possibilities for touch, touching and
being touched, both physically and affectively, are reconfigured by
the pandemic. How are love, care, and humanity's complex
relationships with technology and nature played out in the interval
between abandoned city centres and digitally mediated gatherings?
How can we comprehend the reconfiguration of relationships through
the human response to the pandemic as an experience that concerns
us all but affects each of us in different ways? How do we think
through the technological and material dependencies that the
pandemic situation establishes? And how does this allow us to
imagine the world beyond the pandemic-both utopian and dystopian?
The essays in this book explore the new forms of intimacy and
distance that are developing in the wake of COVID-19, offering a
distinctive, topical analysis in the fields of urban and digital
studies.
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