Covidiots and the Clamour of the Virus-as-Question

IF 1.1 Q2 ANTHROPOLOGY

Anthropology in Action-Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice Pub Date : 2020-06-01 DOI:10.3167/aia.2020.270212

B. Lim

引用次数: 6

Abstract

Drawing on my experience with gay men in London who, despite COVID-19-related public health guidelines, continue to meet up and congregate so as to engage in a myriad of sexual (and non-sexual) practices, this article grapples with how an insistence on prepandemic intimacies of bodily interactions during a pandemic might prompt us to reconsider our relationship with biomedicine. While these covidiots’ experiments with mortality in the form of dance parties, orgies and casual hook-ups may not be ethically exemplary, this article argues that they are at the very least ethically interesting because they serve as lures through which our other intimacies with temporality, futurity and finitude may be reconsidered.

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Covidiots和病毒问题的喧嚣

这篇文章借鉴了我在伦敦遇到的男同性恋者的经验，他们尽管有与新冠肺炎相关的公共卫生指南，但仍继续聚会，以进行各种性（和非性）行为，探讨在大流行期间坚持大流行前的亲密身体互动可能会如何促使我们重新考虑我们与生物医学的关系。虽然这些新白痴以舞会、狂欢和随意勾搭的形式对死亡进行的实验在道德上可能不是典型的，但本文认为，它们至少在道德上是有趣的，因为它们充当了诱饵，可以通过它们重新考虑我们与时间性、未来性和有限性的其他亲密关系。

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来源期刊

Anthropology in Action-Journal for Applied Anthropology in Policy and Practice ANTHROPOLOGY-

CiteScore

3.10

自引率

7.10%

发文量

审稿时长

24 weeks

期刊介绍： Anthropology in Action (AIA) is a peer-reviewed journal publishing articles, commentaries, research reports, and book reviews in applied anthropology. Contributions reflect the use of anthropological training in policy- or practice-oriented work and foster the broader application of these approaches to practical problems. The journal provides a forum for debate and analysis for anthropologists working both inside and outside academia and aims to promote communication amongst practitioners, academics and students of anthropology in order to advance the cross-fertilisation of expertise and ideas. Recent themes and articles have included the anthropology of welfare, transferring anthropological skills to applied health research, design considerations in old-age living, museum-based anthropology education, cultural identities and British citizenship, feminism and anthropology, and international student and youth mobility.