Listening to the Silence: On Reading Blu’s Hanging During a Pandemic
Reading Lois-Ann Yamanaka’s novel Blu’s Hanging during lockdown, Julia Brown considers the significance of silence during a pandemic.
I Want to Zoom with the Baby in My Womb: Pregnancy During the Pandemic
In this personal essay Cleo Hanaway-Oakley reflects on being pregnant during the pandemic and the importance of ultrasound scan imagery.
Publics, pandemics, and the performance of ethical review
The Animal Research Nexus project developed an immersive performance for engaging publics with the ethics of animal research around an emerging disease. Bentley Crudgington talks to Gail Davies about happens when the staged event becomes a global emergency.
Why Didn’t We See the Coronavirus Pandemic Coming?
A question of scale: Bettina Bildhauer argues that viruses are too small to be recognised in our anthropocentric habits of perceiving agency, but “new materialist” theories and pre-Enlightenment writing can help us challenge these