Published in:
Socioscapes: International Journal of Societies, Politics, and Cultures; Gender and Sexualities Studies in Difficult Times: Uncertain Presents, Coalitional Futures, 2022
Summary:
We have confused the apocalypse with Armageddon. Unlike Armageddon, a decisive battle between good (humankind) and evil (coronavirus presents a phenomenally on-target example), apocalypse means “disclosure” or “revelation.” The virus is exposing how ill many of us already are. Our manufactured-consent response to Covid-19 (social-distancing, self-isolation, hygiene-hysteria/protective gear, techno-ubiquity/teleworking—executed through hypermedicalization, contact tracing, population management, police brutality/fines/jail sentences for non-compliance) intensifies illness. Highlighting our diseased bodies and societies, this apocalypse unveils our impotent dependency on authoritarian-industrialized capitalism—the violence of the everyday, spawning deep inequities
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