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fuck i started to scroll fuck what have I done what have I consigned myself too I have an important meeting tomorrow I have work to do twhaaaaattt haveee I doooonneeeeeeeee

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I was fortunate to read Bounan in college, partly because I was already fortunate to not attend university in the Anglo world. He’s been a card I’ve kept close to my chest as a filter in dealing with the intimacy of covid, then cancer.

The first lines I ever wrote for Covidian Æsthetics were: “COVID-19 will favour aesthetic interpretation[s] like no public health crisis in shared memory since AIDS.” Here you have us and, of course, the most aesthetic of the AIDS interpretations is Bounan’s. His is also the sense in which I’ve alluded to being in the flow and the throes of a general “extinction event” (as mentioned explicitly in my last year’s invective against the Venice Biennale).

We share interesting sources. Thank you for airing this one.

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