What Comes After A Mobility Shock: As the coronavirus sweeps around the world, outpacing public health efforts to contain it, all human mobilities have been brought to an abrupt halt. People have stopped going to work, children are home from school, businesses close their doors,
2/ airplanes stop flying, cruise ships are turned away from ports, borders are closing, factories stop churning out products, and shipment of goods globally has vastly slowed. The governing regime of mobilities has been thrown into sudden disarray, and with it the world economy.
3/ Under these exigencies to de-mobilize our lives, we are forced to adopt new routines, new habits, and new ways of stilling ourselves, our economies, and our social interactions.