#Covid-19

Science & Technology

Pangolins, bats or another species – where did COVID-19 come from?

Viruses similar to the 2019 novel coronavirus have been discovered in horseshoe bats and the critically endangered Sunda pangolin. Scientists presume that the illegal trade of these animals at “wet markets” may have played a key role in the Covid-19 outbreak.

Politics & Society

Covid-19 and the Civilizing Process

What are the long-term processes within which the emergence of Covid-19 is fixed? Are infectious diseases a central feature of the civilizing process and how can the form taken by this process help to improve control over those diseases?

Politics & Society

Don’t Confuse Constraints with Confinement during COVID-19

Will the words we choose and the thought processes that accompany them help us through this crisis? Can we ever equate freedom with confinement or do we just need to shift our thinking?

Arts & Humanities

Kulturvirologin zur Corona-Pandemie: “Man will Krankheiten immer Bedeutungen zuschreiben.”

Künstlerin und Kulturwissenschaftlerin Susanne Ristow beschäftigt sich seit Jahren mit Viren. Wir sprachen mit ihr über das Verhältnis von Virus und Kunst, vergangene Pandemien und virale Potentiale in der Corona-Pandemie.

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