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Month: October 2020

  • (failed) states of exception

    I’ve been an admirer of Christopher Brown’s fiction ever since I bought a two-handed piece for Futurismic that he wrote with Chairman Bruce (“Windsor Executive Solutions”, which is still up and available to read, amazingly enough). I finally got my hands on one of his recent novels back in the spring, and found myself thinking…

  • syndemic

    Richard Horton at The Lancet (via Andrew Curry): Two categories of disease are interacting within specific populations—infection with severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) and an array of non-communicable diseases (NCDs). These conditions are clustering within social groups according to patterns of inequality deeply embedded in our societies. The aggregation of these diseases on…

  • torsdag

    Early morning. Busy week… busy month. Lectures, courses, presentations and launch events, abstracts and revisions and draft papers… everything at once, really. And a surprising amount of fiction reading, too; the advantage of agreeing to teach a seminar on climate fiction is that it forces you to read the stuff you suggested on the basis…

  • memorandum

  • 12OCT20 / accessions