What is it about?
Throughout the COVID-19 pandemic, the circulation of misinformation, pseudoscience, and conspiracy theories has been the subject of attention and concern. This text explores the messy fragments of circulating pandemic fictions, situating them in broader social, cultural, religious, historical, and political contexts.
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Why is it important?
We have all become pandemic subjects. The forces shaping this seemingly new identity are not always themselves new. This article examines what it means to be a pandemic subject.
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This page is a summary of: The Edges of a Pandemic: Pseudoscience, Alternative Medicine, and Belief in the Age of COVID, TOPIA Canadian Journal of Cultural Studies, December 2020, University of Toronto Press (UTPress),
DOI: 10.3138/topia-006.
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