Pandemic Time: A Critical Introduction

Abstract

Whatever it is, coronavirus has made the mighty kneel and brought the world to a halt as nothing else could. Our minds are still racing back and forth, longing for a return to "normality," trying to stitch our future to our past, and refusing to acknowledge the rupture. But the rupture exists. And amid this terrible despair, it offers us a chance to rethink the doomsday machine we have built for ourselves. Nothing could be worse than a return to normality.-Arundhati Roy, "The Pandemic is a Portal"