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Spectacular Infrastructure: Madrid’s Pandemic Hospital between Public Spectacle and Speculation by Janina Kehr

Design by okb-buro.com On a fresh autumn day in 2019, under Madrid’s deep-blue sky, I went for a morning coffee with Ernesto, an infectious-disease physician working in one…

Post date 2nd February 2021
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The Hospital Multiple: Introduction by Janina Kehr

Somatosphere

Since COVID-19 has come to haunt the globe, hospitals in all their guises have featured centrally in the pandemic response. As the flagships of health systems, hospitals have…

Post date 17th November 2020
Post author By Janina Kehr
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Messianic Medicine: Treating Disease in the Time that is Left by Janina Kehr

Somatosphere

In “The Time that Is Left”, Giorgio Agamben sketches the problem of messianic time. He writes that the messianic is “not the end of time, but the time…

Post date 25th July 2016
Post author By Janina Kehr
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