1: Writing the coronavirus to memory
Observing, listening and writing, as a way of remembering the coronavirus COVID-19 pandemic, from within the midst of the slowdown.
Writing to memory
The impact of this virus is pitched somewhere between the common cold and the end of capitalism, and no one knows exactly where.
That, and the ceaseless torrent of both events and discussion about the events, makes it difficult to write about. As a result, these articles hover between personal reflection, cultural observation, and possible insights for policy, design, and action, without ever really settling.
This is not a time for conclusions, though. I refuse to offer up strategies, or ideas here. It is not the time or the place: people are dying and I’m not a doctor. The situation is too complex to carelessly stumble into. It would be like hurling a PDF at a hurricane.
Not that the strategies, or ideas, don’t exist. The ‘day job’, and much of the evening discussion within my extended professional community, who are split across varying degrees of lockdown across…
