Posted on by edmundberger
Maybe COVID will finally realise the dream of 1990s sociology and its 'network society': the end of face-to-face contact and the full virtualisation of the public sphere.
— Anton JΓ€ger (@AntonJaegermm) March 10, 2020
Harvard University is closing for remote learning.
The rest will follow.
— John Robb (@johnrobb) March 10, 2020
It plays well with this excellent thread from Fred Scharmen:
Half-assed conjecture: what if the ascendance of Interior Architecture, at the same moment of crisis in Landscape Architecture, is a rehearsal of a retreat from the outside world on the part of global elites?
— Fred Scharmen (@sevensixfive) April 30, 2019
Reciprocal Contradiction 
“24 Hour Theory People: Mark Fisher and the blogosphere”
https://sydneyreviewofbooks.com/essay/mark-fisher-blogosphere/
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saucer flyover country
https://newbooksnetwork.com/b-j-hollars-midwestern-strange-hunting-monsters-martians-and-the-weird-in-flyover-country-u-nebraska-press-2019/
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viral acceleration
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@adam_tooze
Β·8hViral time really is different – different both to “climate time” and “liquidity shock/2008” time. The struggle right now is to prevent all three becoming terrifyingly entangled.
& BBC on the end of the “Great Acceleration”
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/p086wryy
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barrology DIU style
https://prospect.org/economy/the-man-who-knew/
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