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This School’s COVID-19 Video Has Filled Me With Dread

July 22, 2020 by Museum Fatigue

After watching this video I feel even worse about the upcoming semester. I am overcome with dread. I’m sure this school designed this video to make their students feel confident about the fall, but it’s a joke. It could have been made by The Onion or SNL. What is left behind in the quest to deal technically with the problem of a poorly managed pandemic is pretty much everything that makes teaching and learning in person valuable at all. No […]

Categories: Higher Education, Mythologies, pandemic, Uncategorized • Tags: COVID-19, pandemic

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Things to Remember From The COVID Spring #1: Public Relations

March 21, 2020 by Museum Fatigue

I think it is worth remembering that an obsession with public relations and authoritarian information management got us into this mess. The Chinese government silenced the doctors that first identified the Coronavirus and tamped down the free flow of information through censorship and propaganda. The Trump administration spent weeks downplaying Covid-19 as “just another flu” and were “worried about the numbers.” Even now some organizations are obsessed with controlling the message and making sure people don’t speak their minds. This […]

Categories: COVID Spring • Tags: COVID-19, propaganda, public relations

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And a Drone Shall Be the Sign

February 22, 2020 by Museum Fatigue

A few weeks back when the COVID-19 Coronavirus really hit the news, I was fascinated to see an outbreak in the news of drone stories coming from China. Over the past few years the drone has become a kind of, pardon the pun, a floating signifier for all that is rational, automated and “unmanned” about modernity in China. Never mind that drones loaded with disinfectant chemicals flying around “fighting the Coronavirus” are of limited value and probably not too good for […]

Categories: Surveillance • Tags: Coronavirus, COVID-19, drones

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