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[Roxanne Dubois] Saturday, April 11, 2020 Reflections on the parallels of physical training and the required practice, endurance and effort needed to build a better world. I am not one of those people who enjoys running. I get why some love the activity; it’s freeing, accessible and mobile. I just hate it. I am runningContinue reading “Movement building”

[Joshua Shaw] Friday, April 10, 2020 After twenty-eight days in isolation, I have concluded my anti-depressants have stopped working. It seems obvious to me now as I pace my apartment, flitting between couch, armchair, bed and, even more briefly, my desk, searching desperately for a place that can conjure a sense of determination, an excitableContinue reading “Quarantine-Bodies: An Auto-Psychogeography of Law”

[Philip Liste] Thursday, April 9, 2020 * Einer geht mit seinem ferngesteuerten Auto Gassi Irgendwo in der durch vereinzelnde Solidarität gestifteten Einsamkeit der Stadt * PL 3.22.2020

[Marius Gulbranson Nordby] Wednesday, April 8, 2020 The last few weeks have given me a crash course in many things digital, particularly the different platforms for video conversations. For example, I hosted a digital book launch on Zoom. It was for a book about environmental ethics seen through the lens of Jurassic Park. It isContinue reading “Who is it all for?”

[Niklas Eder] Tuesday, April 7, 2020 While packing my stuff to leave New York City, I am thinking about the statement that Peer made in his earlier post: „The crisis reveals the often hidden, more often swept-off-the-table and silenced calamities of the neoliberal destruction of the welfare state”.

[Ralf Michaels] Tuesday, 7 April, 2020 Perikles, killed 429 BC by the plague in Athens, now being disinfectedPicture by Stavros Papantoniou (facebook) James Meek, author of a recent novel about the great plague, predicts history will “bifurcate: in one version the epidemic will have changed everything – social histories – and in the other itContinue reading “Learning from Corona?”

[Morag Goodwin] Monday, April 6, 2020 On one day last week, I conducted 53 interviews with potential students interested in starting our LL.B. Global Law. The interviews are the conversational equivalent of a hit-and-run, limited to +/- 10 minutes by the sheer number of registrations. The applicants came from all over, with every continent represented,Continue reading “Not that big a deal?”

[Irina Lehner] Sunday, April 5, 2020 Whether I open a newspaper, go online on social media or have real-life conversations – wherever I look, Corona is there. How can it be that, suddenly, my mental, academic, and even physical horizon has been reduced so thoroughly to one single topic? This often induces an overwhelming feelingContinue reading “New Perspectives?”

[Inbar Peled] Saturday, April 4, 2020 In the wake of the pandemic, democracies worldwide are witnessing the rise of emergency politics. What started with the closure of borders to prevent the spread of the virus, is now creeping into the very infrastructure of domestic legislation. The decision of Hungary’s parliament to grant Prime Minister ViktorContinue reading “Coronavirus and the Neoliberalism of Fear”

[Asma Atique] Friday, April 3, 2020 “Did you see that article about how blue the clouds are now in China because of corona?” asked my friend on a virtual hangout. As an environmental justice scholar, I found something deeply troubling about all the news stories and posts celebrating clear, blue skies – all with someContinue reading “Corona and its clear blue skies”