Vanishing mediators in public health during COVID-19

Abstract

Public health interventions during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic aim to ensure that the lessons learned of the crises can prevent historical recurrences. Such interventions can mean vanishing mediators that must cater to a post-pandemic structure. Learning from large-scale political and scientific histories or advances—emancipatory projects, pandemic histories and vaccine developments—as well as individual agencies—physical activity and exercise—at the moment become crucial in rethinking and enacting utopian possibilities.

Subjective destitution, love, and rebellion in pandemic times: Theorizing with Hot Skull

“…In short, some wondered if it could act as a vanishing mediator to a post-capitalist society. Under the conditions of COVID-19, acts of mutual aid and reciprocity from below, and state-generated initiatives for public health and social safety from above, could plausibly be identified as activities with long-term necessity and viability (Flisfeder, 2020; Inverardi-Ferri and Brown, 2022; Kahambing, 2021; Mueller et al, 2020; Žižek 2020a, 2021).…”