In 2029, on the 10th anniversary of the first Covid pandemic, former medical anthropologists Joe Dumit and Emilia Sanabria gather a range of primary sources to explore the undoing of [...]
Mask worn by the evil Virus character. Source: https://www.pexels.com/photo/green-and-black-dragon-figurine-4718639/ Zina sat on the edge of her bed, looking down at her knobby rope-veined hands, curled together her [...]
Since the outbreak of Covid-19, reports on wildlife reclaiming locked-down cities have flourished in all corners of the globe. You might have noticed that, albeit to a lesser extent, news [...]
“Let’s cultivate the movement we want, and leave space for others to do the same. There’s room. Let it breathe” (Adrienne Maree Brown 2017: 116). An American Suburb Near You Ordinary [...]
The communal house that local residents had built, on a barren plot once designated for Jakarta’s latest megamall construction, has a freshly planted fruit orchard that offers fine scenery for [...]
It begins, as it always does, with a lie. By tracking the virus that caused global havoc at the time, its spread could maybe be slowed down. The Tracing App [...]
Abolition is both a world without, and a world with. In Ruth Wilson Gilmore’s words, abolition is “a strategy and a vision for a world without police, prisons, border control and [...]
by Alize Arıcan AES is pleased to share this interview by Alize Arıcan, AES editorial intern, Ph.D. candidate at the University of Illinois at Chicago, with Hayal Akarsu, Junior Research Fellow [...]
Conspiracies surrounding the Covid-19 pandemic are not unique or “new” in how they mobilize and rally against government institutions, science, and both “democrats” and “liberals.” In my research about conspiracy [...]
“It is a segmented, immobile, frozen space. Each individual is fixed in his place. And, if he moves, he does so at the risk of his life, contagion or punishment. [...]
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