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Normalized/Panicked

  • Amy Kaler
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© 2022 University of Alberta Press, Edmonton, Alberta

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vi
  3. Acknowledgements x
  4. Introduction xiv
  5. The Beginning xviii
  6. Spring 2020
  7. Before, After 3
  8. Concentration 4
  9. Returns 6
  10. Breathe 8
  11. Airport Security 9
  12. Crossing New Thresholds 10
  13. The Crash 12
  14. Summer 2020
  15. On Trails 17
  16. What Are You Looking At? 18
  17. Twice-Blooming Lilacs 21
  18. Curiosity Cabinet 23
  19. All the Futures 26
  20. The Licence Plate 28
  21. Bewildered 29
  22. Covid Anxiety 31
  23. Downward 33
  24. Crime and Punishment/Everything Is Free 34
  25. Objects 37
  26. Where Is Here and Where Is There? 39
  27. The End of Science World 41
  28. Why I Can’t Think 43
  29. Fall 2020
  30. Medicine 49
  31. Masks 50
  32. The Places Where People Are Not 52
  33. Emergencies and Disasters 54
  34. In the Airport in October 55
  35. Peak Personal Responsibility 56
  36. Resignation and the Second Wave 59
  37. The River is Alive 61
  38. De-Escalation 63
  39. Normalized/Panicked 65
  40. It’s All Fucking Bullshit 66
  41. It’s All Fucking Bullshit 67
  42. The Fresh Horrors Device 68
  43. The Campsite 70
  44. Pandemic Melancholy 71
  45. Winter 2021
  46. Time of Trial 77
  47. Vacation Scandal 78
  48. Schadenfreude 82
  49. Hermits 84
  50. Buffalo Bill’s Defunct 86
  51. Be Kind 87
  52. Like a Drug Deal 89
  53. Hi Mom, It’s Me 90
  54. Hi Mom, It’s Me 91
  55. Ice Is Solid and Liquid 92
  56. Rules and Vacations 93
  57. Ice, Again 95
  58. Who Are You Going to Believe? 96
  59. No Time at the North Pole 98
  60. Getting Better or Not? 99
  61. Hard Freeze 101
  62. Falls the Shadow 102
  63. Jellyfish Time 104
  64. Walking into the Hill 105
  65. Moon Illusion 107
  66. Time Dividend 109
  67. Adolescent Bardo 112
  68. Proprioception 113
  69. Lost Places and the Annual Lockdown 115
  70. Spring 2021
  71. Two Futures 121
  72. Brain Studies 122
  73. Skiing 125
  74. This Is Your Brain on Covid 128
  75. This Is Your Brain on Covid 130
  76. The Place Becomes Strange 132
  77. Life on Mars 135
  78. Leonard Cohen at the Whistle Stop Café 136
  79. Desolation 139
  80. Coda
  81. Vaccine Theology 147
  82. References 153
https://doi.org/10.1515/9781772126617-034

Chapters in this book

  1. Frontmatter i
  2. Contents vi
  3. Acknowledgements x
  4. Introduction xiv
  5. The Beginning xviii
  6. Spring 2020
  7. Before, After 3
  8. Concentration 4
  9. Returns 6
  10. Breathe 8
  11. Airport Security 9
  12. Crossing New Thresholds 10
  13. The Crash 12
  14. Summer 2020
  15. On Trails 17
  16. What Are You Looking At? 18
  17. Twice-Blooming Lilacs 21
  18. Curiosity Cabinet 23
  19. All the Futures 26
  20. The Licence Plate 28
  21. Bewildered 29
  22. Covid Anxiety 31
  23. Downward 33
  24. Crime and Punishment/Everything Is Free 34
  25. Objects 37
  26. Where Is Here and Where Is There? 39
  27. The End of Science World 41
  28. Why I Can’t Think 43
  29. Fall 2020
  30. Medicine 49
  31. Masks 50
  32. The Places Where People Are Not 52
  33. Emergencies and Disasters 54
  34. In the Airport in October 55
  35. Peak Personal Responsibility 56
  36. Resignation and the Second Wave 59
  37. The River is Alive 61
  38. De-Escalation 63
  39. Normalized/Panicked 65
  40. It’s All Fucking Bullshit 66
  41. It’s All Fucking Bullshit 67
  42. The Fresh Horrors Device 68
  43. The Campsite 70
  44. Pandemic Melancholy 71
  45. Winter 2021
  46. Time of Trial 77
  47. Vacation Scandal 78
  48. Schadenfreude 82
  49. Hermits 84
  50. Buffalo Bill’s Defunct 86
  51. Be Kind 87
  52. Like a Drug Deal 89
  53. Hi Mom, It’s Me 90
  54. Hi Mom, It’s Me 91
  55. Ice Is Solid and Liquid 92
  56. Rules and Vacations 93
  57. Ice, Again 95
  58. Who Are You Going to Believe? 96
  59. No Time at the North Pole 98
  60. Getting Better or Not? 99
  61. Hard Freeze 101
  62. Falls the Shadow 102
  63. Jellyfish Time 104
  64. Walking into the Hill 105
  65. Moon Illusion 107
  66. Time Dividend 109
  67. Adolescent Bardo 112
  68. Proprioception 113
  69. Lost Places and the Annual Lockdown 115
  70. Spring 2021
  71. Two Futures 121
  72. Brain Studies 122
  73. Skiing 125
  74. This Is Your Brain on Covid 128
  75. This Is Your Brain on Covid 130
  76. The Place Becomes Strange 132
  77. Life on Mars 135
  78. Leonard Cohen at the Whistle Stop Café 136
  79. Desolation 139
  80. Coda
  81. Vaccine Theology 147
  82. References 153
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