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By Michael Schillmeier With COVID-19 we experience the dramatic effects of a cosmopolitical event by which a non-human actor politicizes, i.e. unbuttons the normalcy of the ‘cosmos’ of shared lived spaces, what we take for granted as and what we expect from a globalized life-world. The dynamics of infection unfold an existential learning situation not […]

By Lucy Osler “Connecting with others online is not a new practice, of course. However, with lockdown measures in place across much of the globe, our social lives have been forced to migrate online to an even greater degree and intensity than ever before. Working from home, happy hour on Zoom, family games on Steam, […]

By Neville Morley As the world endures a pandemic, the War on the Rocks podcast looks to a plague of the past: that which struck Athens early in the Peloponnesian War. Where did the plague come from? How did it affect the war? How did it change Athenian society? We explore these questions and more […]

By Neville Morley The first detailed, quasi-scientific account of epidemic disease was offered by the Ancient Greek historian Thucydides, describing an outbreak of ‘plague’ (the identity of the disease is unknown) in Athens in 430 BCE. Thucydides’ description influenced many subsequent accounts; it is most interesting for his exploration of social and psychological responses to […]