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From AIDS to Corona, Silence=Death

In his book The Return of the Real: The Avant-Garde at the End of the Century, American art critic Hal Foster writes that it is trauma that allows us to escape from the traditional binary approach that plagued most postwar art: that images either refer to something or...

Pandemics, Contagion, and Fear, part 2

Over the next few days (weeks?), I will post excerpts from my book Going Viral: Zombies, Viruses, and the End of the World. Taking a look at these fictional narratives before and even during an outbreak can help us see what to do and, more important, what not to do in...

White People, Step Up

Ever since the election in November, I’ve had several friends mention that they were going to ration their Facebook time, or cut it out all together. “Facebook is just too difficult these days,” they would say. “I blame Trump,” they would...