Harvard epidemiologists are calling COVID-19 a ‘once in humanity’ type of virus. But what is it teaching us? While I’m doing my own fair share of binge-watching bad TV in order to numb the pain of what I’m witnessing around me, I’m also trying to think actively about how we might come out of this.
My current reading has echoed what a lot of us are beginning to understand. In her stunning book, ‘The Mushroom at the End of the World: On the Possibility of Life in Capitalist Ruins,’ Professor Anna Lowenhaupt Tsing argues that ‘survival’ is nothing like our […]
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