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E-book Lockdown Cultures : The arts and humanities in the year of the pandemic, 2020-2021
April 2020. It had begun as little more than a flicker on a news feed, a tiny spark in a media agenda that was already crackling with the electric charge of a world increasingly divided. But as the Covid-19 crisis began to take hold, with every new outbreak confirming its deadly horror, two opposing phenomena very quickly began to emerge. The first was a kind of global solidarity in helplessness. Across the world, as never before in our lifetimes, we would come to feel bound by a bewildering and terrifying common experience. Simultaneously, an opposing force pulled us in the other direction – as lockdowns were announced country by country, we all began to feel in a very tangible sense disconnected from one another, isolated, alone. For many people, this was a contradiction of enormous intensity; we were bound by a common humanity and yet utterly cut off from others.
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