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Article published In: Language, Culture and Society
Vol. 2:2 (2020) ► pp.227–241

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Forum – COVID-19

Pandemic discourses and the prefiguration of the future

 | Collectively written in April 2020 |
Published online: 4 December 2020
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Article outline
  • 1.A quarantine diary
  • 2.Social discipline and surveillance within confinement
  • 3.The care and concern of the common: “Only the people can save the people”
  • 4.Knowledge production as a commoning practice
  • Acknowledgements
  • Notes
  • References
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