still wild to me that there are academics who viewed the pandemic with optimism
where were you for 9/11
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yes, you may remember how judith butler remarked on taking advantage of a moment of heightened vulnerability and shattering of first-world privilege to re·examine our attachments to others and articulate a new politics based on mutual interdependency
you may also remember that didn't happen
this is why people say academics are out-of-touch with the real world
have you read nothing on disaster economies, states of crisis and exception, necropolitics ⁊c ⁊c like come on
where were you for katrina