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The article focuses on coronavirus pandemic which is blamed on deregulated border crossing for anticommunists and mentions collective castigation in Egypt aimed at production of awakening Topics discussed include coronavirus blamed on financial capitalism and biopolitical state of exception, response to telepresence technologies and therapeutic appointments by videoconference considered by healthcare institutions

The author focuses on republican Ramadan that can be chance for people to reflect importance of derisory and mentions noise surrounding state of war against coronavirus pandemic Topics discussed include archaism of return to the European borders, general mobilization against coronavirus that does not prove people to be ready for next and relearning efforts of washing hand

The article focuses on the impact of coronavirus pandemic on social changes and daily lives causing lockdowns and mentions regression threat to open barbarism Topics discussed include collapse of health care and violence with public disorders, threat of president Donald Trump to invoke Defense Production Act and ramping up production of emergency medical supplies

The author focuses on images of public silence which denoted sign language of public listened to governments and mentions physical isolation alternatives could break social contract Topics discussed include public protest against social distancing which reads as causes of contagion, contagion seen by family participating in protest against murder of Black George Floyd and forms of the coronavirus sonic image

The article focuses on emergence of panoply of genres of quarantine noticed by author Joshua Clover in a blog post and mentions notion of biopolitics mentioned by philosopher Michael Foucault Topics discussed include concept of biopolitics to address the coronavirus pandemic, issue for political decision-making to be addressed by the government and city disciplinarization with inhabitants during plague pandemic

The article focuses on narrative of Covid-19 pandemic which plays into conservative iconic order and mentions practices to modify the neurobiological processes of individuals Topics discussed include challenges for government infrastructure responsible for medical care, questions of embodiment raised by the Covid-19 and transformation of public space into media space

How swiftly do genres of the quarantine emerge! Notable among them is the discovery of the relation between the present pandemic and onrushing climate collapse The driving force of this genre is not holy shit two ways for a lot of people to die but the realization, or hope, that the great mobilizations of state resources currently being unspooled to address COVID-19 prove the possibility of a comparable or greater mobilization against ecological catastrophe, an even greater threat if somewhat less immediate There is to be sure a certain mixing of analogies: in the United States, confronting climate change is conventionally likened to the New Deal or Marshall Plan, schemes to hedge against the charisma of communism, while addressing the pandemic decisively takes the language of war itself, a “war footing,” “wartime president,” and so on This is an interesting slippage, no doubt, though both analogies rely on a vision of preserving global hegemony Insert rueful laugh