Infection is the invasion of space. Of our most personal space, sometimes called place. Of our workplaces,…

Infection is the invasion of space. Of our most personal space, sometimes called place. Of our workplaces, social places, homes and ultimately our bodies. It’s the most granular level of empire, now called an economy, the push to total mobilisation. Of everything. /1

You might have a cubicle at work, where you re-breathe everybody else’s air and ‘hot desk’ what little agency, what little place (as opposed to space) you have granted to you. You’re allowed space, provided the economy and your employer defines it. You’re not allowed place. /2

Any attempt to re-ground people in place will be called a ‘lockdown’, and ruthlessly suppressed. A politics that worships individuality will strip every last vestige of yours, because it’s not your individuality it protects. But in doing it, it invites microbes, who respect…/3

…no boundaries, no place. Microbes love symbiosis, the most social of all living things. Societies that abandon the social for the individual invite their own infected destruction. /end