Lockdown Cultures : : the arts and humanities in the year of the pandemic, 2020-21 / / edited by Stella Bruzzi, [and three others].

• TeilnehmendeR: Bruzzi, Stella,
• Place / Publishing House: London, United Kingdom : : UCL Press,, 2022.
• Year of Publication: 2022
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (xxvi, 319 pages) :; illustrations
• Notes: Includes index.

Lockdown Cultures is both a cultural response to our extraordinary times and a manifesto for the arts and humanities and their role in our post-pandemic society. This book offers a unique response to the question of how the humanities commented on and were impacted by one of the dominant crises of o...

Table of Contents

• List of figures</i><br><i>List of contributors<br>Foreword<br>Acknowledgements</i></p><p>Introduction<br><i>Maurice Biriotti</i></p><p><b>Part I: Politics</b>1 'Give me liberty or death'<br><i>Lee Grieveson</i>2 Translating Covid-19 information into Yiddish for the Montreal-area Hasidic community<br><i>Lily Kahn, Zoë Belk, Kriszta Eszter Szendrői, and Sonya Yampolskaya</i>3 Shakespeare and the plague of productivity<br><i>Harvey Wiltshire</i>4 The decolonial option and the end of the world<br><i>Izabella Wodzka</i>5 Distant together: creative community in UK DIY music during Covid-19<br><i>Kirsty Fife</i>6 Now are we cyborgs? Affinities and technology in the Covid-19 lockdowns<br><i>Emily Baker and Annie Ring</i></p><p><b>Part II: History</b>7 Reflections on Covid-like pathogens in ancient Mesopotamia<br><i>Markham J. Geller</i>8 Handwashing save slives: producing and accepting new knowledge in Jens Bjørneboe's Semmelweis (1968)<br><i>Elettra Carbone</i>9 Experience and coping with isolation: what we can see from ethnic Germans in Britain 1914-18<br><i>Mathis J. Gronau</i>10 Unexpectedly withdrawn and still engaged: reflections on the experiences of the Roman writer and politician Marcus Tullius Cicero<br><i>Gesine Manuwald</i>11 The Gallic Sack of Rome: an exemplum for our times<br><i>Elizabeth McKnight</i>12 On Spinalonga<br><i>Panayiota Christodoulidou</i></p><p><b>Part III: Performance, identity and the screen</b>13 The thing itself<br><i>Alexander Samson</i>14 Towards a new history: The corona-seminar and the drag king virus<br><i>Helena Fallstrom</i>15 'In spite of the tennis': Beckett's sporting apocalypse'<br><i>Sam Caleb</i>16 Screening dislocated despair: projecting the neoliberal left-behinds in <i>100 Flowers Hidden Deep</i><br><i>Nashuyuan Serenity Wang</i>17 A digital film for digital times: some lockdown thoughts on <i>Gravity</i><br><i>Stephen M. Hart</i>18 The Great Plague: London's Dreaded Visitation, 1665<br><i>Justin Hardy</i><i> </i></p><p><b>Part IV: Literature and writing</b>19 Lessons for lockdown from Thomas Mann's <i>The Magic Mountain</i><i>Jennifer Rushworth</i>20 The locked room: On reading crime fiction during the Covid-19 pandemic<br><i>Jakob Stougaard-Nielsen</i>21 The weight of the shrinking world<br><i>Florian Mussgnug</i>22 A voice-mail lyric for a discipline in crisis: On Ben Lerner's 'The Media'<br><i>Matthew James Holman</i>23 20,000 leagues under confinement<br><i>Patrick Bray</i>24<i> </i>Reflections on Guixiu literary cultures in East Asia<br><i>Tzu-Yu Lin</i></p><p><b>Part V: Personal reflections</b>25 At home: Vaughan Williams' 'The Water Mill; and new meaninsg of 'quotidian'<br><i>Annika Lindskog</i>26 The habit of freedom<br><i>Naomi Siderfin</i>27 Pandemic dreaming<br><i>Adelais Mills</i>28 In pursuit of blandness: On re-reading Jullien's <i>In Praise of Blandness</i> during lockdown<br><i>Emily Furnell</i>29<i> </i>Blinded lights: going viral during the Covid-19 pandemic<br><i>Sarah Moore</i></p><p><b>Part VI: Visual responses</b>30 Morphologies of agents of the pandemic<br><i>SMRU (The Social Morphologies Research Unit : Davdi Burrows,Martin Holbraad, John Cussans, Kelly Fagan Robinson, Melanie Jackson, Dean Kenning, Inigo Minns, Lucy Sames, Hermione Spriggs, Mary Yacoob)</i>31 Wildfire<br><i>John Thomson and Alison Craighead</i>32 Poems from <i>Gospel Oak</i><br><i>Sharon Morris</i>33 I have a studio (visit) therefore I exist<br><i>Carey Young, Alice Channer, Anne Hardy and Karin Ruggaber</i>34 Inventory<br><i>Jayne Parker</i>35 After a long time or a short time<br><i>Elisabeth S. Clark</i>36 When the roof blew off<br><i>Joe Cain</i></p><p><i>Index.