Dispatches from Home and the Field during the COVID-19 Pandemic (Palgrave Studies in Literary Anthropology)

Preface\n	Writing Viral\nContents\nAbout the Authors\nList of Figures\nChapter 1: Part I: The First Wave\n	On the Periphery\n	Screen Memories\n	A Week of (Not) Knowing\n	To Be AND Not to Be a Citizen\n	Virtual Mourning, Virtual Loss\n	Déjà vu\n	The Viral Sublime\n	Anger\n	Flickers of Ordinariness\n	Microphantasms of the Pandemic\n	Memento mori\n	Legislative Intimacies\n	The Other World, or Cacophony and Ethnography in Malaysia\n	Communicating with and Through a Face Mask\n	Family\n	Sanitizing New York\n	On Shopping and the Desire to Buy Shit During a Pandemic\n	The Workout\n	No Mask\n	Queer life in Quarantine\n	Stroud Playground\n	Touch (In Progress)\n	Gentle Exile\n	Dancing With in COVID-19\nChapter 2: Part II: The Second Wave\n	“It’s Covidtastic”\n	The Morning Commute\n	Toothpaste\n	DiCTATURe eN COURS\n	How Everything Can Collapse\n	Virtual Travels\n	Rinse and Repeat\n	Music\n	I Lost You\n	Working From Home\n	Nine days\n	Online Lifeline\n	Migrants’ Stories in Pandemic Times\n	Transnational Pain\n	Breathing with Others\n	The Paranoid Style\n	Goldilocks-Down\n	Chronochromatic Maps\n	Alone, Performing to the Wall\n	Fresh Flowers and State Violence\n	Deferred Returns\nChapter 3: Part III: Photos from the New Year\n	Change (Figs. 3.1 and 3.2)\n	Boy, It’s Scary Out There\n	The Same River Twice (Fig. 3.5)\n	A Sign of the Times (Fig. 3.6)\n	Photo of a Photo (Fig. 3.7)\n	Listen to Nature! (Fig. 3.8)\n	Getting Ready for a Lonely New Year’s Eve Party (Fig. 3.9)\n	Creation Destruction Creation... (Fig. 3.10)\n	Tree Disposal (Fig. 3.11)\n	Winter Evening in Savoy, Illinois (Fig. 3.12)\nChapter 4: Part IV: Calculations\n	Viral Load\n	COVID-19 Daily Spatiotemporal Calculations\n	The Calculi of Pleasure\n	2021\n	Vaccine on the Mind\n	The Second (And Third) Shift\n	Calculating a Livelihood\nChapter 5: Part V: Interludes\n	“This Virus Is a Hoax”\n	Older Brother\n	Circling the Year of the Cyclone\n	Memories of March 2020\n	The Panel and the Pandemic\n	Blue Fade, Fragments\n	A Different Kind of Red\n	Narrating Vaccinations\n	The Gray Man Chasing Vaccine Rainbows\n	Placing the Javits Center\nPostscript\n	It\nReferences