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Disappointed in the World’s Most Viral Video

Avatar photo by Seph Rodney April 19, 2020June 24, 2020

I asked myself what makes entertainment media go viral, in particular music videos, these videos that call up some feeling of want or remembrance so that millions of people (or perhaps billions) reach for them again and again.

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Looking at Ourselves Through Social Distance Cinema

Avatar photo by Dan Schindel April 19, 2020December 16, 2020

A one-location movie tills fertile thematic ground for auteurs, celebrities, and ordinary people who explore facets of being alone through film and video — the subtle distinctions between solitude, loneliness, isolation, confinement, paranoia, and sanctuary.

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The Last Tourist in Assisi

Avatar photo by Debra Brehmer April 19, 2020June 24, 2020

A writer reflects on Giotto, St. Francis, and what it means to have faith amid a pandemic.

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A History of Disease, Faith, and Recovery in Rome

Avatar photo by Anthony Majanlahti April 19, 2020June 24, 2020

What happens when an epidemic strikes and that profoundly human urge to kiss and touch items thought to be sacred becomes part of the problem?

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Livestreams and Spirit in a Time of Pestilence

by AX Mina April 19, 2020June 24, 2020

The emergence of spiritual circles online in the face of COVID-19 strikes me as the opposite of viral — a place to be still in the face of viral turbulence on the streets and in the air, and viral turbulence on social media and the broader internet.

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From Viruses to Algorithms, We Are Always Under Threat

by Joseph Nechvatal April 19, 2020June 24, 2020

What can we learn from the exponential unleashing of viral codes, as they circulate and duplicate beneath the surface of your cultural and physical world?

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The Pandemic’s Invisible Agent

by Hakim Bishara April 19, 2020June 24, 2020

Thin as one-thousandth the width of an eyelash, the malign virus appears to us in magnified images as a round glob of genetic material surrounded by a beady shell. The so-called crowns (corona in Latin) on its surface are its means of destruction.

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Introducing Our First Sunday Edition, Viral: 🦠From Pandemics to Popularity 🌐

Avatar photo by Hrag Vartanian April 19, 2020November 5, 2020

Introducing our new Sunday edition, which will dive into both timely and timeless topics in a multifaceted way. For this first edition, we’ve chosen the theme “Viral.”

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