As well as immune troubles, neurological damage, cardiovascular accidents, and on and on. Nice to see #anthrotwitter waking up a bit to the Covid dimension of reality.
https://twitter.com/radicalanthro/status/1616835792357425152
Because yeah really, we got a lot of nice quarantine journals, and some medical anthropologists have been involved in government responses in 2020-2021. But Covid wasn't just an event; the situation has changed, and until now, anthro ppl haven't been up to it.
The main reason I more or less stopped relaying Anthronews is because I felt it was so out of touch with this emerging, urgent aspect of reality.
Same thing among my colleagues; I'm among the only one who's been exposed during my fieldwork to covid political realities and has kept in touch with scientific controversies, while keeping up with the idea that another pandemic was, still is, indeed, possible.
The so-called "acute phase", which corresponded to a spectacular state power display, has ended. Yet the pandemic is not over, and Covid has become a global, enduring aspect of human and non-human reality, even now that laissez-faire has become the dominant governmentality.
Our task should be to document this emerging political situation, even if it remains a silent one unless we want to remain out of touch with the pandemic history that is being forged at this very moment.
Anthropology and anthropologists have a history of not being able to understand theirs "others" history as part of their own.
Spoiler: viruses are agents, even if humans remain the ones who, ultimately, are able to recognize this agency, define it, realize its effects, etc.
Spoiler: viruses are agents, even if humans remain the ones who, ultimately, are able to recognize this agency, define it, realize its effects, etc.
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