The Hyperreal Plague: How Girard & Baudrillard Explain the Pandemic with Geoffrey Shullenberger
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Is It a Pandemic or a Plague?
Basely: At the founding of any institution is this kind of repressed, secret violence. He's saying it symbolizes a group's imminent demise. Basely takes that directly from freud; he seems to be suggesting that in plagues, something about thiskind of repressed violence becomes apparent.
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