Another Day in Dystopia. Italy in the Time of COVID-19

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Notes

1. During the talkshow Che Tempo che Fa.

2. “Italy called” is a passage in the Italian national anthem, see https://www.litaliachiamo2020.it/.

3. https://osservatoriolagiustadistanza.blogspot.com/; http://www.treccani.it/magazine/atlante/cultura/Storie_virali.html; http://fareantropologia.cfs.unipi.it/notizie/2020/03/1421/.

4. Original source: https://ilmanifesto.it/lo-stato-deccezione-provocato-da-unemergenza-immotivata/. For an English translation see http://www.journal-psychoanalysis.eu/coronavirus-and-philosophers/.

5. http://www.journal-psychoanalysis.eu/coronavirus-and-philosophers/.

6. https://twitter.com/hashtag/covidhasnoborder?src=hash&ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw.

7. “Lo dico con molto rispetto, ma senza alcuna remora: questi decessi sono un’anomalia che dobbiamo approfondire e studiare con cura e velocità”, my translation. From https://www.fanpage.it/attualita/coronavirus-aver-preso-troppi-antibiotici-potrebbe-spiegare-perche-in-italia-si-muore-di-piu/.

8. “Se, in altre parole, il problema non fosse dove lo stiamo cercando – in un ceppo virale più aggressivo, ad esempio – ma nella presenza di super-batteri negli ospedali che aggravano il quadro già complesso di un malato da Coronavirus?” from https://www.fanpage.it/attualita/coronavirus-aver-preso-troppi-antibiotici-potrebbe-spiegare-perche-in-italia-si-muore-di-piu/https://www.fanpage.it/.

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Roberta Raffaetà

Roberta Raffaetà is Research Fellow and Lecturer at the Free University of Bolzano, Faculty of Design and Art. Her research explores how to live together in an entangled world, in a planet made of human and more-than-human beings. Her long-term ethnography of microbiome scientists in Italy and US, Anthropology of Microbes. How big data biology reconfigures what does it mean to be human (and healthy) in a microbial world, is to be published in April.