Post-Covid Fantasies

Edited by Catherine Besteman, Heath Cabot, and Barak Kalir

Jul 27, 2020

Post-Covid Fantasies: An Introduction

by Catherine Besteman, Heath Cabot, and Barak Kalir

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Little Girl+Megaphone (COVID: Communities Organizing Vital International Demilitarization)

by Kali Rubaii

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Speech for the 20th Anniversary of First Great Confinement, by the Slow Eco Fashion Global Interconnected Cooperative

by Giulia Mensitieri

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Smiling Behind the Mask

by Divine Fuh

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Covid-19 water dispenser donated by the Ntambag Brothers of Old Town, Bamenda. Photo Credits: Photo by Ntambag Brothers

Returning Livelihood to the Land: A Radical Biopolitics for 21st Century Pandemics

by Myles Lennon

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Black farmers work the land at (link: https://www.soulfirefarm.org text: Soul Fire Farm) in Grafton, NY. Photo Credit: Capers Rumph, (link: https://theoppositeofwar.com text: www.theoppositeofwar.com)

Covid-19 Pandemic as Carceral Revelation: Toward Abolitionist Counter-War

by Dylan Rodríguez

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June 8, 2020 downtown Riverside, CA (photo courtesy of the author)

The Great Turning and the War System

by Catherine Lutz

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"War 2" by Carlos Latuff. Date: 2006 Source: http://latuff2.deviantart.com/art/War-2-27832944

A Post-Covid-19 Fantasy on Incompleteness and Conviviality

by Francis B. Nyamnjoh

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Japanese anthropologist, Professor Kiyoshi Umeya of Kobe University, trying out a mask at his office. Photo by Francis B. Nyamnjoh

Travel: A Post-Covid-19 Fantasy

by Samuli Schielke

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At Checkpoint Charlie where the Berlin Wall once stood, borders and controls are a memory from the past, and there are no tourists. Photo by Samuli Schielke 27 May 2020.

The Academic Year 2030/31: A Triptych Fantasy

by G. Geltner

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Operation Trojan Horse: The Un-Corporate Takeover of The Iron Maiden, 2025. Credit: Photo by Gianluca Cescon

O Vangelo, Africa

by AbdouMaliq Simone

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At one with the sea, Castel Volturno. www.abc.net.au

Reparative Public Goods and the Future of Finance: A Fantasy in Three Parts

by Hannah Appel

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Windows at the Oakland, California Critical Resistance headquarters. Photo by author.

A Reverse-Engineered Insurrection

by Miriyam Aouragh

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Credit: Georgie Hodges

Contranormal

by Yatun Sastramidjaja

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February 2020. Source: https://www.reddit.com/r/HongKong/.

Open Air in Ordinary Spaces

by Celina de Sá

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The photo was taken by Bastien Defives in Dakar, Senegal In 2016.

Bombarding Borders (So to Speak): Against a Bleak Prognosis of Migration Governance in Post-Pandemic Times

by Corina Courtis

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"Explosion." Credit: Clarisa Courtis, Belgium, 2020.

Tender Idea

by Janelle S. Taylor

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Mask worn by the evil Virus character. Source: https://www.pexels.com/photo/green-and-black-dragon-figurine-4718639/

Fragments from the Demise of the Pharmaceutical

by Joseph Dumit and Emilia Sanabria

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Bosco Verticale’s 2022 cannabis harvest (Hundertwasser strain) provided Milan hospitals with a novel antiviral terpene formulation that demonstrated lung tissue reparative properties, leading to Italy-wide hometrials, three new protective strains, and several remarkably colorful psychoactive ones. Derivatives now form the basis for one of VivaData’s largest planet-wide trials to date. Image: Il Bosco Verticale in primavera visto dal lato Ovest. Marco Salo (Creative Commons)

How Does the Sky Bleed?

by Chandra D. Bhimull

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May 24, 2020. Photo by author.

A Storm in a Teacup

by Nusrat S. Chowdhury

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A Bangladeshi store-front in Italy. Photo taken by my Venetian friend, Thomas Newbold

Dirty Dreams

by Matthew Wolf-Meyer

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Photo credit: Josh Reno

The Surrounding Trees Whispered with Their Leaves

by Nicole Heller and Tomas Matza

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Time After Taylorism

by Alex Blanchette

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Teresa, Yorkshire Pig, Age 13. Copyright Isa Leshko. All Rights Reserved.

Solidarity

by Céline Cantat

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Photo credit: Maël Galisson

Academic Freedom of the Future

by Lori Allen

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A Future Called Home

by Manissa M. Maharawal

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Home and sky and clouds through a screen. Manissa M. Maharawal

Prepping

by Christopher Begley

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Photograph by author.

The Annual Planetary Hydroxychloroquine Binge

by Patrick Neveling

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Cruise ship in Kaohsiung Harbor, 2002 (CC BY-SA 3.0 license, source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:%22China_Sea_Discovery%22_-_Kaohsiung,_2002.jpg)

Curing COVID-1619: An Artifact from a Possible Future

by Savannah Shange

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