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Pandemic Pastoral

Chapter of: The Pandemic Visual Regime: Visuality and Performativity in the Covid-19 Crisis(pp. 237–258)

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TitlePandemic Pastoral
ContributorJulia Ramírez-Blanco(author)
DOIhttps://doi.org/10.53288/0448.1.10
Landing pagehttps://punctumbooks.com/titles/the-pandemic-visual-regime-visuality-and-performativity-in-the-covid-19-crisis/
Licensehttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/
CopyrightJulia Ramírez-Blanco
Publisherpunctum books
Published on2023-11-09
Long abstractRamírez-Blanco reads the complex representations of the “natural” realm that have taken place during those times in which people felt further than ever from other forms of life, human or non-human. Confinement in many cities gave rise to empty streets, and vacant buildings, creating images of uncanny beauty that can be perceived as a kind of “pandemic sublime”. However, many people trapped at home became ever more nostalgic for an idealized nature, perceived through their computers and phones, and which mediated in different fictionalized or direct ways with the non-human realm. Through videos, phone calls with non-human animals, or even a “back to the land” movement after confinement, this chapter traces how the “pandemic sublime” has lead to the construction of what can be termed a “pandemic pastoral”. The author makes clear how, in its sentimental and non-ideological dimensions, this imaginary needs to be politicized if we want to respond to the next global emergency: that of present climate change and environmental destruction which led to the pandemic in the first place.
Page rangepp. 237–258
Print length22 pages
LanguageEnglish (Original)
Keywords
  • COVID-19
  • sublime
  • nostalgia
  • digital culture
  • animal studies
  • pastoral
Contributors

Julia Ramírez-Blanco

(author)
Ramón y Cajal Researcher at Universidad Complutense de Madrid
https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5068-4613

Julia Ramírez-Blanco is a Ramón y Cajal Researcher at Complutense University, Madrid. Her work connects art history, utopian studies, and activism. She is author of Artistic Utopias of Revolt (Palgrave, 2018); 15M: El tiempo de las plazas (Alianza, 2021); Amigos, disfraces y comunas (Cátedra, 2022); La ciudad del Sol: Le mouvement 15M entre formes et performances (Éditions Lorelei, 2023). Member of the Research Collective of the C4AA, she also has co-led the research and exhibition project Grande Révolution Domèstique-Guise on feminist utopias. She has amply collaborated with the Museum of Contemporary Art of Barcelona (MACBA) and has curated the 15M materials for the recent reorganization of the permanent collection of the Reina Sofia Museum in Madrid. In Reina Sofía, she is part of the core group of “Tejidos Conjuntivos,” the Museum’s Study Programme in Critical Museology, Artistic Research Practices, and Cultural Studies.