#Covid-19

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.

Academia & Publishing

Librarians Coping with Covid-19: An Outlook from China

Foster Zhang, University Librarian at the Chinese University of Hong Kong, Shenzhen, remains hopeful that we can find yet more innovative ways to use technology as his institution is forced to switch to remote learning due to the Corona crisis.

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