Pandemic Diaries: Affect and Crisis

Edited by Carla Jones

May 20, 2020

Introduction: Mourning a Moment: Affect and Crisis

by Carla Jones

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Figure 2: “Gerakan masker kain gratis,” or the “free cloth facemask movement,” had distributed 6,485 masks in the greater Jogjakarta region as of April 23, 2020, @dhaniekratna.

Cultivating Resemblance: Moving Strangers on the Internet to Care

by Paige Edmiston

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How to Sense a Pandemic: Curves, Models, and the Affective Allure of Flattening

by Lauren Storz and Anna Wynfield

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Wanting Nature to Strike Back: Apocalyptic Dreams for a Pandemic

by Olivia Cunningham

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Figure 9: @decolonialatlas “One week of air traffic in March 2039 vs March 2020. #flygkam” April 4, 2020

Good Vibes: The Complex Work of Social Media Influencers in a Pandemic

by Gillian Davenport

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Seeing Still Isn’t Believing: Social Distancing and the Labor of Witnessing

by Anden Drolet

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Viral Satire as Public Feeling in Myanmar

by Chu May Paing

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Figure 1: I feel pity for the British