The Corona Diaries

L'Atalante Revista de Estudios Cinematográficos, 2022

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research), 2023

The Covid-19 pandemic continuously affects people around the world, exposing the already existing social interconnectedness and economic interdependencies of our times. Revisiting pandemic fiction, as well as, crises narratives in literature and other cultural productions in general, has suddenly become a coping strategy to counteract the effects of physical distancing, but in particular the experiences of lockdowns. Interestingly, since the early stages of the pandemic in the Western world in spring 2020, numerous artists have not only dissected the reality of confinement across diverse genres but more so provided the public with uplifting content in various audiovisual formatssuch as short films, web series, and music videos. In this article we will mainly take on the latter producing material about the pandemic during the pandemic, portraying the human need for connection, uplifting narratives and images. Across national, cultural, and linguistic borders, Corona Fictions (cf. Research Group Pandemic Fictions 2020) demonstrate how fragile our social fabric is while, at the same time, strengthening the feeling of solidarity, togetherness/ unity, and cohesion. Hence, this article will examine Corona Fictions music videos for their understanding and depiction of uplifting narratives in these challenging times.

2020

A question that has been lingering on my mind since March is: How are people coping with COVID-19? Intertwined with this question is, how am I dealing with coronavirus? As a human being I have found it rather impossible to separate my own reality and daily activities (family life, work, grocery shopping, etc.) from the pandemic itself. As an information professional (librarian more specifically), educator, journalist, and oral historian, I find it difficult and flat-out irresponsible not to think about how to document the COVID-19 pandemic that has enveloped our world. Living through a worldwide pandemic is not easy. As of June 22, 2020, more than 8.8 million cases have been confirmed and more than 465,700 people have died from COVID-19.[1] In addition to the people who have been diagnosed with COVID-19 and many who have passed away due to the virus, nearly every person on Earth has been affected one way or another via direct or indirect contact with the virus.[2] Although some people may never contract the virus, most of humanity has been affected in other ways. Nearly

Allegra Laboratory, 2018

In this thematic week we aim to think through the notion of displacement. At a time that is marked by unprecedented movements of refugees and migrants on the one hand, and deep-seated anxieties of becoming a “stranger to one’s own land” (Hochschild 2016) on the other, we believe that it is pivotal to reconsider this idea from various perspectives. Bringing together eight social anthropologists who give insights into their on-going ethnographic research in different parts of the world, we tackle this theme by giving precedence to the often-dialectical ways displacement and emplacement are experienced, lived and made sense of by groups and individuals.

INSERT. Artistic Practices as Cultural Inquiries. Issue 3, 2022

In the following article, the Archivo Caminante (Walking Archive) will attempt to delineate approaches for rethinking participatory criticism with a particular focus on aesthetic activist critical practices that allude to the possibility of freeing ourselves from traditional “negative-affirmative” judgement in order to simultaneously galvanise and extend its aesthetic dimensions. In addition, the Archivo Caminante seeks to enmesh itself with the goals of the encounter, both in dissident narratives and in the interrelations of reparation and care. All of these contribute to the Archivo Caminante’s work on memory, its archival practices and its exercises in political imagination as a form of decolonising knowledge.

Apocalypsis theme for e-flux jornal 65 the Supercommunity issue for the Venice Biennale 2015, guest-edited by Pedro Neves Marques. Contributors include: Jimmie Durham, Adrian Lahoud, Eduardo Viveiros de Castro and Déborah Danowski, Lesley Green, Jon Rich, Rory Rowan, Ben Woodard, and Marisol de la Cadena. Thanks to e-flux and the e-flux team.

Culture Unbound, 2019

In 219, Culture Unbound turns ten. Moving from childhood into adolescence, the decade that has passed since the inaugural thematic issue in 2009 has been one of great change in scholarly publishing, as indeed in the whole infrastructure of academia more generally. Looking back at the theme of that first 2009 issue, "What's the Use of Cultural Research?" nothing has been lost in terms of the relevance of the topic itself. And yet, it is not inconceivable that the question and the possible answers would be articulated and framed quite differently if posed today. In one sense, ten years is a microsecond in the longue durée of scholarly publishing. In another sense, both digitization and globalization has profoundly influenced the way in which an open access journal such as Culture Unbound now travels in the world. In the accompanying editorial to that first theme http:// www.cultureunbound.ep.liu.se/v1/a01/cu09v1a01.pdf, the founding editors-Johan Fornäs, Martin Fredriksson and Jenny Johannisson-set out the underlying ideas and thoughts behind Culture Unbound. Their vision of Culture Unbound as an "unbound, free and open space for intellectual exchange, " has guided and will continue to guide Culture Unbound's transition into its next decade (and beyond). And even while the expression "available to anyone with a networked computer" sounds very much like 2009 and not so much 2019, the fact that Culture Unbound will continue as an open-access resource for those who "wish to take part in recent developments in the understanding of the many facets of culture and culturalisation, " remains as current a vision today as it did ten years ago. Terminology may grow old, but principles live on and evolve. 2019 therefore marks a special year in the life of Culture Unbound. Changes are on the horizon, both in respect to the Editorial Team (Eva Hemmungs Wirtén is leaving after 5 years and Jesper Olsson will be succeeding her as Editorin-Chief) as well as a reorganization of the Editorial Board. We are continuously looking into new ways to better make use of the digital format both when it comes to content and the design of that content. But some things will also stay the same.

Frontiers in Artificial Intelligence

The COVID-19 pandemic brought about a profound change to the organization of space and time in our daily lives. In this paper we analyze the self-recorded audio/video diaries made by residents of Edinburgh and the Lothian counties during the first national lockdown. We identify three ways in which diarists describe a shift in place-time, or “chronotope”, in lockdown. We argue that the act of making a diary for an audience of the future prompts diarists to contrast different chronotopes, and each of these orientations illuminates the differential impact of the COVID-19 lockdowns across the community.

Culture Unbound: Journal of Current Cultural Research

While nation states have a disputed status in a globalised world, cities are often regarded as sovereign and global actors. Along with de-nationalising processes of increased privatisation, supranational governing and networks of transnational corporations, city administrations have developed new capabilities of orientation and governing in a global context (Sassen 2006). Inequality, poverty and segregation are some of the pressing issues that city administrations are grappling with – issues of local challenge with global relevance and repercussions, and vice versa. We wonder, if city administrations also address cultural issues that traditionally were of national concern, as fostering and narrating a sense of identity and belonging? If so, we think this shift needs to be further inquired, as we know that narrating and uses of history are not innocent practices. Rather, these are activities which consciously and unconsciously can push developments and futures in specific directions ...

Thermochimica Acta, 1978