The Chronopolitics of Covid-19

Dados Bibliográficos

ID3528705
AutoresRobert Peckham (0000-0001-8370-609X, autor correspondente)
Ano2020
Volume92
Fascículo4
Páginas767-779
Data de publicação2020-12-01
Peer ReviewedSim
Open AccessNão
TipoARTICLE
PeriódicoAmerican Literature (JOURNAL)
Identificadores do periódicoISSN: 0002-9831 • E-ISSN: 1527-2117
EditoraDuke University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1215/00029831-8780983
OpenAlexW3091923186
IdiomaEN
Citações recebidas7
Referências citadas13

This paper examines the temporal politics of the COVID-19 pandemic, arguing that despite the emphasis on digital real-time coverage and epidemiological forecasting, the pandemic has been understood as a historical event, even as it has been unfolding. The paper considers the implications of this ambiguous temporality, suggesting that COVID-19 has made visible a new heterotemporality, wherein real time, history, and the future intermesh. The paper concludes by focusing on Hong Kong, a former British colony and Special Administrative Region of the People's Republic of China since 1997, showing how the pandemic has become an uncanny rendering of the city's uncertain future

2019-20 coronavirus outbreak · Aesthetics · Art · China · Coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) · Disease · Epistemology · Infectious disease (medical specialty) · Outbreak · Pandemic · Political science · Politics · Rendering (computer graphics) · Severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus 2 (SARS-CoV-2) · Temporality · Uncanny · Computer Science · COVID-19 epidemiological studies · COVID-19 Pandemic Impacts · History · Law · Medicine · Philosophy · Virology