Virus is other People

Q1 Social Sciences

Cultural Politics Pub Date : 2021-03-01 DOI:10.1215/17432197-8797641

I. Goh

引用次数: 2

Abstract

Abstract:While we disavow or renounce the virus that is ourselves in viral cultures such as a pandemic or systemic racism, we envy the viral force of others who are trending on social media. In viral cultures, we tend to think that virus is other people, forgetting our own viral potential or threat. In any case, all viral cultures make us sick; if not, we make one another sick. And when a vaccine is not available, rest is all we have at our disposal. We also tend to forget or belittle this rest. To break from viral cultures, then, this intervention calls for a general pause in human activity, which must include thinking, and which, if ever possible, would take place in common among all humans.

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病毒是其他人

摘要:当我们在病毒式文化(如流行病或系统性种族主义)中否认或放弃自己的病毒时，我们羡慕社交媒体上流行的其他人的病毒力量。在病毒文化中，我们倾向于认为病毒是其他人，而忘记了我们自己的病毒潜力或威胁。无论如何，所有的病毒培养都会让我们生病;否则，我们会让彼此生病。当没有疫苗的时候，我们能做的就是休息。我们也容易忘记或轻视这种休息。因此，为了摆脱病毒文化，这种干预需要人类活动的普遍暂停，其中必须包括思考，如果可能的话，这将在所有人类中共同发生。

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Cultural Politics Social Sciences-Cultural Studies

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1.20

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期刊介绍： Cultural Politics is an international, refereed journal that explores the global character and effects of contemporary culture and politics. Cultural Politics explores precisely what is cultural about politics and what is political about culture. Publishing across the arts, humanities, and social sciences, the journal welcomes articles from different political positions, cultural approaches, and geographical locations. Cultural Politics publishes work that analyzes how cultural identities, agencies and actors, political issues and conflicts, and global media are linked, characterized, examined, and resolved. In so doing, the journal supports the innovative study of established, embryonic, marginalized, or unexplored regions of cultural politics. Cultural Politics, while embodying the interdisciplinary coverage and discursive critical spirit of contemporary cultural studies, emphasizes how cultural theories and practices intersect with and elucidate analyses of political power. The journal invites articles on representation and visual culture; modernism and postmodernism; media, film, and communications; popular and elite art forms; the politics of production and consumption; language; ethics and religion; desire and psychoanalysis; art and aesthetics; the culture industry; technologies; academics and the academy; cities, architecture, and the spatial; global capitalism; Marxism; value and ideology; the military, weaponry, and war; power, authority, and institutions; global governance and democracy; political parties and social movements; human rights; community and cosmopolitanism; transnational activism and change; the global public sphere; the body; identity and performance; heterosexual, transsexual, lesbian, and gay sexualities; race, blackness, whiteness, and ethnicity; the social inequalities of the global and the local; patriarchy, feminism, and gender studies; postcolonialism; and political activism.