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VIRAL: Lorenzo Veracini, Desmond Manderson, ‘A Virus is Colonising Our Pubilc Life’, Arena Online, 19/05/20

19May20

Excerpt: To cut a long story short, the virus SARS-CoV-2 has rapidly ushered in a new political regime. It has colonised our public life.

It has done so in several interrelated ways, but three aspects can be emphasised.

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