Rethinking Space Beyond the Pandemic (Editors’ Note)
Deeksha Suri | Khalsa College University of Delhi | ORCiD ID: https://orcid.org/0009-0001-2977-9543
Faizan Moquim | Jamia Milia Islamia | ORCiD ID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7698-1656
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.71106/RCWK8008
Publication: Volume 4 Issue 4
Excerpt | Challenges in reconfiguring any form of existence find spatial dynamics at the fulcrum of their transformative vision. To think of our times in their irreducible complexity, therefore, is to think anew of space a respacing of our existence in the world. Space, being the condition of possibility, prompts new significations that usher towards different ways of knowing and being. The concept of espacement by Derrida highlights the fundamental dimension of space where the very conception of formations of say, subjectivity, epistemology, politics, ethics, intelligibility, and identity among othersis spatial, permitting the relations and structures to be. The network of these formations, as the formative spatial dimension determining our actions, transfigures the heterogenous folds of the space of present. Amidst the current global crisis of COVID-19 in particular, the dynamics of these formations have become even more forceful appropriating both change and stability simultaneously.
Key words | Spatiality, Pandemic, Lockdown, COVID-19, Death, Respacing of Existence, State Power, Politicization of Space, Healthcare, Digital Space
Deeksha Suri (deeksha.suri80@gmail.com)
Faizan Moquim (faizanmoquim@gmail.com)
MLA Citation for this Article:
Suri, Deeksha and Faizan Moquim. “Rethinking Space Beyond the Pandemic (Editors’ Note).” Language, Literature, and Interdisciplinary Studies, vol. 4, no. 4, 21 Sep. 2021, pp. vii-x, https://doi.org/10.71106/RCWK8008.