“I have been alone and very wretched, without friend or comrade, suffering a great deal.” Philoctetes Photo by Adrian Lach What do Juan Mann, who offered free hugs to passers-by in Sydney’s city centre in 2004[1], and American writer Laura Hillenbrand, who had stayed in bed for years due to chronic fatigue syndrome[2], have inContinueContinue reading “From Philoctetes to HAL 9000. Acting on the theatre stage against loneliness and exclusion”
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When is a Pandemic also a Metaphor?
“Given how central metaphor is to how we conceptualise the world, it was inevitable that metaphor would play a pivotal role in our understanding of the COVID-19 pandemic.” Scientifically accurate atomic model of the external structure of SARS-CoV-2. Alexey Solodovnikov (Idea, Producer, CG, Editor), Valeria Arkhipova (Scientific Сonsultant). Source: Wikimedia This blog post begins with aContinueContinue reading “When is a Pandemic also a Metaphor?”
Media and Epidemics (MEDEP) 