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    Morbus Anglicus; or, Pandemic, Panic, Pandaemonium

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    Author
    Clemens, J
    Date
    2020-11-30
    Source Title
    Crisis and Critique
    Publisher
    Crisis and Critique
    University of Melbourne Author/s
    Clemens, Justin
    Affiliation
    School of Culture and Communication
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    Document Type
    Journal Article
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    Clemens, J. (2020). Morbus Anglicus; or, Pandemic, Panic, Pandaemonium. Crisis and Critique, 7 (3), pp.40-61
    Access Status
    Open Access
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    http://hdl.handle.net/11343/252691
    Open Access URL
    https://crisiscritique.org/past.html
    Abstract
    Mid-17th century England births two fateful new signifiers: pandemic and pandaemonium. Although both words are founded on a Greek root pan, meaning all, neither designate a firm or flourishing polity. The words also retain close etymological, homophonic, and semantic relations to another crucial word of the time: panic. Yet these terms do not simply indicate the destruction or abolition of politics or the political, but rather reconstitute the problem of politics according to a radical paradox. This essay examines the emergence and reconstitution of these signifiers in a philological matrix inflected by plague, civil war, religious violence, scientific inquiry, and monarchical restoration, in order to proffer several theses about their significance and operations in and for politics that subsists beyond the specificities of that site.

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