An erosion of rights, norms, and social bonds produces a kind of nameless, underlying suffering without a name that only certain novels and films seem to articulate; the hypertrophy of the bureaucratic element of life produces a reciprocal atrophy of the spontaneous element of life—a withering of vitality. The irony of the COVID era is that in the name …
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