Tag: coronavirus
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Plague Notes
The stay-at-home urging continues, and we are all doing the responsible thing. Some order appears to be returning to the supermarkets – yesterday I was able to buy nearly everything, except a whole chicken, that I wanted to. We are confined at home. Even young lovers are practising social distancing to protect their doctor parents: […]
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The great seclusion
Michel Foucault’s history of madness describes the decrees of 1656 that confined the insane, the unemployed, and the socially aberrant to the Hôpital général de Paris, the former home of the lepers and the plague-ridden. It was part of what he described as the Great Confinement. “It is common knowledge that the seventeenth century created […]
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The plague year
I have been following the emergence of the coronavirus pandemic since January, especially through the remarkable podcast Warroom: Pandemic hosted by Steven K. Bannon. The world is now living in its modern plague year, and the explosion of a crisis that cannot be managed. The great cities of the world – Wuhan, Beijing, Milan, Venice, […]
The Burning Archive 