covid
An Imaginary Midden
…different. I didn’t feel threatened by COVID, nor did I fear it. No one I knew had it. I pressed the refresh button every day and carried on as normal,…
Extinction rebellion: solitude, love and gender
…sense of helplessness as yet another wave of Covid-19 rises. Peter Melville has argued that Verney’s despair becomes ‘a kind of antibody that allows him to live with and confront…
A Creature for Whom It Matters That You’re There
The COVID pandemic has seen a huge increase in dog ownership. For many people, canine companionship has been crucial in helping them deal with the solitariness of lockdown and social…
The Homes That People Make For Each Other
…by the ubiquitous fact that black and brown people are more severely affected by COVID-19. As fatuous as it might sound to state in earnest, state it I will: the…
Solitude and Nature Writing
…take us back to another global crisis – the trauma of the post-war years – to feel our way through the COVID pandemic and the isolation it brought. During that…
In a Dark Room: Solitude’s Talk
…encounter (and we might add of care) in the covid-19 pandemic were reduced to states of virtuality, of fantasy. How, we might reasonably ask, does the work of relationality that…
Sophie Burrows Exhibition
…narratives that take place in the same neighbourhood , during the Covid-19 pandemic. I explore with each of them the idea of some kind of connectedness simply through the mutual…
Reading Group – Warren Boutcher on ‘Montaigne and Solitude’
This event has been postponed due to COVID-19 and will be rescheduled at a later date….
Research
…of Loneliness’, Guardian. Barbara Taylor and David Vincent, ‘Solitude and COVID-19’, History Workshop Online. Barbara Taylor, ‘Robinson Crusoe and the Morality of Solitude’, Wellcome Collection Stories. Barbara Taylor, ‘Are We…
Solitude, Diversity and Inclusion
…the Covid-19 pandemic but is going forward for completion in 2022. It involves organisations working with migrants in London, and is facilitated by a number of creative practitioners including the…