(Post-)pandemic somatechnics, neoliberalism, and the return to (academic) normalcy: Digital conversations

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dc.contributor.authorRahbari, Ladanen
dc.contributor.authorGeerts, Evelienen
dc.date.accessioned2024-11-25T12:20:14Z
dc.date.available2024-11-25T12:20:14Z
dc.date.issued2024-11en
dc.description.abstractThis essay consists of a set of digital (post-)pandemic email correspondence held between a political sociologist and an interdisciplinary philosopher working at western European universities while the COVID-19 pandemic rapidly unfolded itself. Starting from an unsettling point in time in 2021, during which vaccination strategies and numerous eugenic pandemic containment measures were being discussed, the authors touch upon issues as diverse as the importance of embodied feminist theorising in pandemic crisis times; neoliberal extractive capitalism’s influence on society, pandemic (mis)management, and higher education; the problematic (post-)pandemic business-as-usual-narrative; grief, mourning, and trauma; the power of anger and protesting; and the forced return to normal(cy). These conversations are held together by an irruptions-based methodology based on Deleuze and Guattari (2000) . This methodology tries to make sense of the (post-)pandemic as a disruptive event while forming the backdrop for conversational and critical theoretical snippets, self-designed memes, and critical race, queer, disability, and feminist theoretical perspectives that all conceptualise (post-)pandemic somatechnics as a ‘form of ethico-political critical practice’ (Sullivan and Murray 2011 : vii).en
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden
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dc.identifier.citationRahbari, L. and Geerts, E. (2024) '(Post-)pandemic somatechnics, neoliberalism, and the return to (academic) normalcy: Digital conversations', Somatechnics, 14(3), pp. 285-304. https://doi.org/10.3366/soma.2024.0441en
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.3366/soma.2024.0441en
dc.identifier.eissn2044-0146en
dc.identifier.endpage304en
dc.identifier.issn2044-0138en
dc.identifier.issued3en
dc.identifier.journaltitleSomatechnicsen
dc.identifier.startpage285en
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10468/16669
dc.identifier.volume14en
dc.language.isoenen
dc.publisherEdinburgh University Pressen
dc.relation.ispartofSomatechnicsen
dc.rights© 2024, Edinburgh University Press. This is an Accepted Manuscript of an article published by Edinburgh University Press in Somatechnics. The Version of Record is available online at: https://doi.org/10.3366/soma.2024.0441en
dc.subjectAcademiaen
dc.subjectCOVID-19 pandemicen
dc.subjectCareen
dc.subjectCrisisen
dc.subject(Critique of) neoliberalismen
dc.subjectFeminist theoryen
dc.subject(Post-)pandemic somatechnicsen
dc.subjectNormal(cy)en
dc.title(Post-)pandemic somatechnics, neoliberalism, and the return to (academic) normalcy: Digital conversationsen
dc.typeArticle (peer-reviewed)en
oaire.citation.issue3en
oaire.citation.volume14en
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