{"title":"A sour taste of sick chronicity: pandemic time and the violence of “returning to normal”","authors":"Emily Krebs","doi":"10.1080/14791420.2022.2063354","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT In the face of COVID-19 shutdowns, much of the world fundamentally adjusted its relationship to time, space, work, productivity, and rest. In this essay, I theorize the pandemic as forcing many people to live within “sick spacetime,” which involves 1) experiencing inconsistent mobility, 2) acknowledging the precarity of our bodyminds, and 3) living in the liminal state of being constantly in-wait. I use “sick spacetime” to problematize widespread calls for the “return to normal,” then outline a politics of crip/sick futurity in which orientations to time and space remain flexible as pandemic restrictions ease.","PeriodicalId":46339,"journal":{"name":"Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies","volume":"19 1","pages":"119 - 126"},"PeriodicalIF":1.1000,"publicationDate":"2022-04-03","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"2","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Communication and Critical-Cultural Studies","FirstCategoryId":"98","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/14791420.2022.2063354","RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"文学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q3","JCRName":"COMMUNICATION","Score":null,"Total":0}
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Abstract
ABSTRACT In the face of COVID-19 shutdowns, much of the world fundamentally adjusted its relationship to time, space, work, productivity, and rest. In this essay, I theorize the pandemic as forcing many people to live within “sick spacetime,” which involves 1) experiencing inconsistent mobility, 2) acknowledging the precarity of our bodyminds, and 3) living in the liminal state of being constantly in-wait. I use “sick spacetime” to problematize widespread calls for the “return to normal,” then outline a politics of crip/sick futurity in which orientations to time and space remain flexible as pandemic restrictions ease.
期刊介绍：
Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies (CC/CS) is a peer-reviewed publication of the National Communication Association. CC/CS publishes original scholarship that situates culture as a site of struggle and communication as an enactment and discipline of power. The journal features critical inquiry that cuts across academic and theoretical boundaries. CC/CS welcomes a variety of methods including textual, discourse, and rhetorical analyses alongside auto/ethnographic, narrative, and poetic inquiry.
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