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ABSTRACT
In this paper I explore the way everyday forms of creativity responded to the first wave of the coronavirus. I argue that these creative responses did two things. First, they demonstrated the rich agency that ordinary people have in shaping and sharing their experience of lonely isolation. Second, through the creative works generated and circulated, a critical lens was placed on the way that the pandemic carried forward the inequalities inherent in modern systems of governance. The article is divided into two main sections: the first looks at a range of creative works made by ordinary people to reconnect them to the social world. The second section looks at the creative works that were explicitly politicized and activist in nature, turning loneliness into a political project.
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Sean Redmond
Sean Redmond is Professor of Screen and Design at Deakin University. He is the author of Celebrity (Routledge, 2019), Liquid Space: Science Fiction Film and Television in the Digital Age (I.B. Taurus, 2017), and The Cinema of Takeshi Kitano: Flowering Blood (Columbia, 2013). He is the founding editor of Celebrity Studies, short-listed for best new academic journal in 2011.