#Covidian Epoch

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Aetas Covidiana

The Covidian Epoch

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In this scheme, and in essence, the Baroque is what is comfortable Being In Shadow; it is what’s comfortable with The Uncomfortable. More than descriptive of a Period, the Baroque is faeric time, and so it may prove helpful to think of it as a universe ruled less by dialectics and argumentation than through narrative, appearances and the collapsible aesthetics of agglomeration. We are trapped in a mystery play because this is theatre. The disdain for detail Burkhardt claimed as a Baroque characteristic is not unlike the noise produced by our own, intensely granular, refluxes of misinformation. There’s something natively misinformational to the Baroque, which registers not with the slickness of lies, but with a fuzz. The Baroque (re)appears in the deepest, most angular fissurae of major historical world processes. It is less a historical Period than a historical Thing; a chimeric-atmospheric beast of epochs wrought from hard, if not impossible-to-reconcile, emergent and intercolliding properties. Euripidian drama, Mennippean satire, Spenglerian historiography —maybe postmodernism, even— are all Baroque, or warrant at least some Baroque analysis.

http://www.lapsuslima.com/covidian-aesthetics-iv-the-baroque/

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The Covidian Epoch Begins

Concerns: What do you think will happen with this company? If you eat enough matzoh, you won’t need as much toilet paper. I know that it’s not Passover just yet and it’s forbidden to eat the new matzoh before the first Seder, but these are unique and troubling times. If God has anything to do with Covid-19, how much angrier could he get if we rip open the Yehuda and solve a supply and demand…