Andrés Jaque and Ivan L. Munuera’s The Transscalar Architecture of COVID-19

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AUGUST 28th, 2020

By Alex Tell

The film’s wide range of scales reflects the spatial manifestations of practices designed to mete out injustice, explicitly or insidiously: lines where access to health care is granted or denied; borders where bodies are made criminal; boardrooms where power and net worth are sheltered. We see the world not only rendered through the logic of epidemiology or public health, but through the technical and political apparatuses of the camera, news organizations, and social media. Virality folds in onto itself when contagion and content converge. Chyrons and data visualization graphics organize our surroundings as much as architectural and infrastructural interventions, the film reminds us. And ever more so, as we are told to stay inside and access the world through our screens

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