Synchronization of the Corona Crisis

Lundström, Markus

doi:10.1177/0961463x211057622

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“…This crisis was not limited to side effects alone, but also enacted through a departure from a linear time order (Lundström, 2022). Given its poor success rates and with no certain ‘cure’ on the horizon, many participants described interferon-based treatment as constituting an uncertain and frightening orientation to the future.…”

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“…In a recent analysis of the ‘Corona Crisis’, Lundström explores a similar dynamic among respondents who, prior to the arrival of a COVID-19 vaccine, articulated uncertainty about the seemingly endless nature of the pandemic and the prospect of a bleak future. He describes the crisis as produced through the departure from a linear time order ‘interconnected with a desolate horizon of expectation’ (2022: 8). Similarly, the terms employed by participants to describe their observations about, and feelings towards, living with hepatitis C prior to cure – for example, ‘wasting away’, ‘avoidance’, ‘futile endeavour’ – are evocative in so far as they also suggest a departure from a linear time order and treatment journeys that ordinarily unfold as ‘sequential and progressive’ (Seear et al, 2021: 2).…”

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“…Drawing on Koselleck and Richter, historians Jordheim and Wigen (2018) argue that ‘crisis’ may be replacing the notion of ‘progress’ as a conceptual tool for the synchronisation of heterogenous temporalities into a globalised temporality. As Lundström (2022) has argued, temporal synchronisation does not suggest that ‘crisis’ is experienced uniformly. Elaborating on the notion of synchronisation, Jordheim and Ytreberg (2021) argue that we need to think outside binary distinctions in which time is either normatively uniform or endlessly plural; rather they focus on orders of synchronisation that comprise shared temporal frameworks or shared temporal standards.…”

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Post-crisis imaginaries in the time of direct-acting antiviral hepatitis C treatment

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Until the recent introduction of direct-acting antiviral (DAA) medications, the only available hepatitis C treatments were lengthy and onerous interferon-based therapies, with relatively weak success rates. While experiences of interferon-based treatment have been well documented, there is a need to better understand how the experiences of the ‘old’ treatments shape contemporary treatment experiences. This article uses the concept of ‘post-crisis’ developed in critical scholarship on HIV/AIDS, and recent theorisations of ‘curative time’, to explore the relationship between contemporary treatment experiences and the legacies of interferon-based therapies. In mobilising these concepts, we trouble linear temporal logics that take for granted distinctions between the past and present, old and new, and cure and post-cure, and draw attention to the fluidity of time and the overlapping co-constitutive terrains of meaning that shape treatment experiences. Drawing on 50 interviews with people affected by hepatitis C, we argue that the curative imaginary of DAA treatments – that is, the temporal framing applied to hepatitis C in which cure is expected and assumed – is shaped by the logic of crisis. Here, knowledge of and the possibilities for the new treatments and living with hepatitis C remain tethered to crisis accounts of interferon. Unlike HIV/AIDS, in which the disease itself was figured as crisis, many participants described interferon-based treatments as the crisis: as worse than living with hepatitis C. While the new treatments were widely described as simple and easy, we argue that treatment is not so straightforward and that the crisis/post-crisis relation is central to this complexity . We conclude by considering the significance of these post-crisis enactments for understanding the recent plateauing of DAA treatment uptake, and reflect on how post-crisis futures of hepatitis C ‘cure’ need to address the ongoing constitutive effects of interferon-based treatments.

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COVID time: Temporal imaginaries and pandemic materialities

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2024

Sociology Health & Illness

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Since the advent of the COVID‐19 pandemic, several ways of understanding time have emerged: what we may call ‘COVID time’. Based on 40 qualitative online interviews in 2022 with Australians living across the continent, this article examines how people situated themselves and COVID‐19 in historical time. It further explores how material aspects, place and space (or “pandemic materialities”) factored into lived experiences and temporal imaginaries. We focus on how time‐related concepts such as synchronisation and the definition of crises and events are interrelated in the participants’ understandings of COVID as either over or a continuing crisis. The sociomaterial dimensions that served to alert people to risk and encourage them to engage in preventive action are identified as ways in which COVID time was experienced, remembered, understood and imagined. While some respondents claimed that the present moment was ‘post‐COVID’, for others, the pandemic was far from over in 2022 and indeed stretched into the future. We use a sociomaterial lens to show how respondents portray the ‘temporal technologies’ and ‘objectifications’ of the event of COVID‐19—the tangible materialisations of its temporal status as either relegated to the past or continuing as a mode of present and future crisis.

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‘View from the window’: On time, politics and domestics during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic

Genova

2024

Time & Society

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The present article aims to contribute to theorisations of the politics of time through a detailed engagement with techno-aesthetic strategies of temporal synchronisation and heterogeneisation of everyday rhythms during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic. The exploration focuses on practices of mediatisation of domestic spaces, in particular by examining photographs posted on the Bulgarian-language ‘View from the Window’ Facebook group. The group was founded during the first coronavirus lockdown in April 2020 and its members used it to share images taken from their private homes onto exterior spaces. Theoretically, I build on Henri Lefebvre’s rhythmanalytical project, from which I derive an understanding of the polyrhythmic and multi-scalar character of the everyday, while engaging writings from visual cultures, performance studies, architecture and media theory. The article looks closely at two formal aesthetic strategies that established themselves for posting on the group: The visual strategy of framing and the use of time stamps in image captions. On the one hand, I show how these media practices are engaged in synchronising views with each other; I argue that they contribute to the creation of an equivalence between views while obfuscating their underlying socio-material conditions, which tend to remain outside of the photographic frame. On the other hand, I also demonstrate that these practices can be equally generative of asynchronicity and dissonance between views, bringing to the fore a spatio-temporal heterogeneity and the articulation of stark socio-political differences. The article thus contributes an analysis of the interplay between time, politics and domestics through the conceptual prism of an engagement with aesthetic practices of mediation.

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Synchronization of the Corona Crisis

Cited by 5 publications

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Post-crisis imaginaries in the time of direct-acting antiviral hepatitis C treatment

Post-crisis imaginaries in the time of direct-acting antiviral hepatitis C treatment

COVID time: Temporal imaginaries and pandemic materialities

‘View from the window’: On time, politics and domestics during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic

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