Episode 85: Coronavirus

This is Episode 85 of the State of the Theory Podcast. Politics. Power. Popular Culture. And other stuff, probably. In this series, we’re like super nerdy philosophical DJs: mashing up Serious Academic Questions with the most topical news and trends in pop culture. Each week, we’ll tackle a new topic and collide it with ‘critical theory’ (we’re pretty loose with our definitions, though, so expect the unexpected). Our aim is to destroy the stuff we know, explore the stuff we don’t and unsettle everything we think we know about the world. We take the obvious, the commonsensical, the certain, and then we rip it all to shreds. We are your theory doctors and we are always on call. In this episode we talk about the media coverage of the coronavirus outbreak and think about the role played by race in its depiction. We connect this story to previous analogies such as SARS, Swine Flu and the AIDS epidemic and think of the connections between infection and European conceptions of the non-European Other. State of the Theory is brought to you by Hannah Fitzpatrick (@drhfitz) and Anindya Raychaudhuri (@DrAnindyaR) Find us on Facebook ( or Tweet us @TheoryDoctors

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This episode is 00:40:23 long.

This episode was published on Feb 16, 2020.

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