In a convener’s post for Oedipus the King I wrote for Contagion 2012, I mentioned a strain of recent scholarship on Sophocles’ play that takes the plague setting seriously: After all, the assumption on scholars’ parts has long been that Sophocles introduced an epidemic as the setting for his version of the Oedipus myth because […]
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What we don’t know is often scarier than what we do
Above: How Nerdfighters talk about Zika. Below: How US military dudes do: And here’s a Jamaican Health Ministry PSA: What difference does it make how we imagine — and talk about — disease? Welcome to #contagion16.
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