Re: <nettime> 'The unrelenting horizonlessness of the Covid world'

[d.garcia@new-tactical-research.co.uk]

Thanks Felix, yes I take your point about the importance of adjusting 
our/my
frame of reference. And yes I got a bit 'up myself' so would like to 
apologise
to Ingrid for (Ted's term) the snarky reaction.

Best

David

On 2020-09-28 15:51, Felix Stalder wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> Nobody doubts the difficulties you and many, many others are facing
> right now and there is no use in competing in suffering. It's something
> we all want less of.
>
> I think the point re: Couldry and Schneir, was that already before
> Covid-19, many people did not have the luxury of planning their lifes
> against a stable horizon. I've always been amazed at my own capacity
> (more structural than personal, obviously) to be able to deliver on a
> promise to be at a particular spot, at a particular hour, far into the
> future, across a large distance. But that has always been a rather
> unusual position. And under Covid, it's downright rare.
>
> But what struck me as really strange in this article is that everything
> that Covid does in terms of making the future less certain, climate
> change will do at orders of magnitude greater. Of course, many people
> are living through climate disaster already, but it will help none that
> many more will experience it the near future as well.
>
> So, I generally think we should adjust our frame of reference to
> understand the dislocations caused by the pandemic as an instance of
> more dramatic things to come. Not all of them need to be bad.
>
> Felix
>
>
>
>
> On 28.09.20 14:22, d.garcia@new-tactical-research.co.uk wrote:
> > Boohoo indeed Ingrid,
> >
> > strange that you think this is a condition only suffered by white 
> > males
> > in these weird and particular times.
> > In the UK at least Black and Asian minorities are disproportionally
> > affected by the pandemic and so also highly likely to
> > be disorientated not just in the old but also in wholly new ways.
>
> <...>
>
>
>
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