03130nam 22004935 450 99644064610331620210927121507.03-11-074476-710.1515/9783110744767(CKB)5140000000010531(DE-B1597)579290(DE-B1597)9783110744767EBL7015197(AU-PeEL)EBL7015197(EXLCZ)99514000000001053120210927h20212021 fg engur|||||||||||txtrdacontentcrdamediacrrdacarrierTouch in the Time of Corona Reflections on Love, Care, and Vulnerability in the Pandemic /Kristin Veel, Henriette SteinerBerlin ;Boston : De Gruyter, [2021]©20211 online resource (XIII, 131 p.)Description based upon print version of record.3-11-074470-8 Frontmatter -- Acknowledgements -- Table of Contents -- List of Figures -- Introduction -- 1 The Digital Hug: Love and Care from a Distance -- 2 On the Politics of Face Masks: A Danish Example -- 3 Dancing with the Virus: Moving through the Streets -- 4 Pandemic Stuckness: Cruise Ships and Home Isolation -- 5 The Tales of a Virus: Corona Temporalities -- Coda -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- IndexA chronicle, a memoir, a reflection on the pandemic, and a cultural analysis of the new spatial, social, and epistemological forms that have arisen with it, this volume weaves together cultural history, aesthetics, and urban and digital studies. It looks at the particular ways in which the possibilities for touch, touching and being touched, both physically and affectively, are reconfigured by the pandemic. How are love, care, and humanity's complex relationships with technology and nature played out in the interval between abandoned city centres and digitally mediated gatherings? How can we comprehend the reconfiguration of relationships through the human response to the pandemic as an experience that concerns us all but affects each of us in different ways? How do we think through the technological and material dependencies that the pandemic situation establishes? And how does this allow us to imagine the world beyond the pandemic-both utopian and dystopian? The essays in this book explore the new forms of intimacy and distance that are developing in the wake of COVID-19, offering a distinctive, topical analysis in the fields of urban and digital studies.SOCIAL SCIENCE / GeneralbisacshTouch.care.covid-19.crisis.SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.362.1962/414Steiner Henriette, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut1223524Veel Kristin, authttp://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/autDE-B1597DE-B1597BOOK996440646103316Touch in the Time of Corona2839016UNISA