Viewing COVID through Cultural Studies

I am interested in connecting some of the concepts from the reading to the current social reality of the COVID pandemic:

1) How can we apply the idea of the isolated expert and the need to disrupt disciplinary thinking to the current wave of anti-intellectualism facing all of the various disciplines/ professions within our society and culture (think: physical health, mental health, education, law enforcement, etc.)?

As a high school teacher, this pandemic (and the social response to it) has given me a particular sense of existential dread, so my second question is more specific to my own work in secondary classrooms:

2) What role do educators, who are typically burdened with "healing" the woes facing society, play in addressing the resistance to any sort of meaningful cultural critique (See: recently proposed legislation banning curriculum in Iowa--House File 222--or the legislation seeking to ban language in Wisconsin schools)?

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My two questions from this week have emerged from the Judith Butler piece, A 'Bad Writer' Bites Back , both centered around the journal, Philosophy and Literature —which Butler describes as the self-proclaimed “arbiter of good prose.” I agree with Butler’s staunch defense of questioning common sense and provoking “new ways of looking at a familiar world”, and was reminded of David Harvey’s quote in the introduction to his Companion to Marx’s Capital : “Real learning always entails a struggle to understand the unknown.” Butler describes Philosophy and Literature as a “culturally conservative academic journal” which naturally led me down a longer-than-anticipated visit to the journal's website . I was greeted with a video presented by the Philosophy and Literature’s editor Garry L. Hagberg, who rails against the “jargon infested” work that litters the journal’s field, locating Philosophy and Literature in clear opposition to such bothersome clutter. However, Hagberg...

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