Pandemic Pandemonium By Catherine Keller Photo: Le Pandemonium, by John Martin, 1841, Le Louvre Pandemic and pandemonium—was it mere alliteration insistently linking those two words in my head? They seem disconnected: the pandemic has Read more…
The Great Pandemic Novel Will Not Be About the Pandemic By Alissa Jones Nelson If someone asked you to list the necessary tools for global transformation, fiction might not be high on your list. But Read more…
Mantra: These are Trauma Days By Anna Mercedes More than two months into working and parenting from home during the coronavirus pandemic, I am grateful to the teachers who had shown me, before the new Read more…
In the Midst of a Global Pandemic: A Conversation about Dependency, Interconnectedness, and Planetarity 15 May 2020 Dorothea Green Lecture Series, Steven J. Green School of International & Public Affairs The current Covid crisis, among other Read more…
COVID-19 and Environmental Racism in Louisiana’s “Cancer Alley” By Justine M. Bakker The first time I saw Highway Gothic, a 2017 installation by artists Ellen Gallagher and Edgar Cleijne, I was struck by the use Read more…
When a Pandemic Makes the Impossible, Possible By Dion Forster What has been particularly interesting for me in this coronavirus pandemic is how things that we believed were impossible, suddenly became possible. I call them Read more…
Spotting Democracy’s Disruption in a Pandemic By J.D. Mechelke In a pandemic, our attention should be on stopping spread, sickness, and death. But there are less obvious places our attention should be. A state of Read more…
On Letting People Die: Coronavirus, Geronticide, and Other Worldly Matters By Teya Brooks Pribac “Charlie” – © Teya Brooks Pribac 2020 Small, realistic resolutions at the end of the year keep one happy and help Read more…
The Butterfly Effect and the Coronavirus: The Truth of Interrelatedness By John J. Thatamanil A butterfly flutters its wings in the Amazon and triggers a typhoon in China—some version of that image, with varying locations Read more…
