Waiting in Premodern Medicine
Lina Minou reflects on the role of waiting for early-modern patients and practitioners
Anxious Strategies, Part 2: Anxiety in Strange Places
In the second of two posts, James Rákóczi discusses the collaborative and explorative processes behind the Anxiety in Strange Places workshop
Anxious Strategies, Part 1: Anxiety and Its Research Futures
In the first of two posts, James Rákóczi reflects on new directions for anxiety research and the Anxious Strategies seminar
On Strike! 2022
In solidarity with the UCU strikes, The Polyphony will not be posting any new material between 21st March and 1st April 2022.
New Year, New Editors!
Editor-in-chief Fred Spence welcomes our new editors and says farewell to our outgoing team
‘Great Leveler’? Covid-19’s Impact on Migration and Health Research
Thea de Gruchy et. al. discuss the implications of Covid-19 for migration and health research.
Reading Closely: Bodies and Environments
Anna Ovaska and Kaisa Kortekallio examine the ways close reading can be used as a method for approaching vulnerable bodies and environments.
‘Arrival at Elsewhere’: Book Review
Gita Ralleigh reviews ‘Arrival at Elsewhere’, a book-length collaborative poem compiled from work written during the first few months of UK lockdown.
Neuromaani and the Poetics of Illness
Laura Piippo discusses the challenging poetics of illness in Jaakko Yli-Juonikas’s experimental novel.
Fluxambol: Prototyping a Medicine of Uncertainty
In a hybrid essay, artist and researcher Sarah Scaife reflects on her prototyping of a medicine, which she calls Fluxambol.