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ABSTRACT:The Covid-19 pandemic has forced us to consider our relations to the atmosphere, as social distancing and masking measures focus our attention on how we might limit viral exposure through our breath. In this article I trace these relations to theorize what I call atmospheric erasure, which refers to the ways that both elements of the atmosphere and groups of people may be rhetorically constructed as removed from or only partially relating to the atmosphere. I consider the repercussions for these erasures by reading the mask as a marker of racialized models of virality and (non)humanity, ultimately arguing that the pandemic focalizes our need to attend to ecological connections and erasures through models of the atmosphere.
ConfigurationsArts and Humanities-Literature and Literary Theory
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Configurations explores the relations of literature and the arts to the sciences and technology. Founded in 1993, the journal continues to set the stage for transdisciplinary research concerning the interplay between science, technology, and the arts. Configurations is the official publication of the Society for Literature, Science, and the Arts (SLSA).
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