Core issue:
what can artists' imagination add to the current pandemic?

Essay: Artists' guide to the apocalypse

what are artists' coping strategies with the crisis

apocalypse: history of the word, 

China: end of the world, Buddhist thinking: end stage of reincarnations, Dharma ending era -> sutra, Gospel of John/Book of Revelation - 
explaining Western biopolitics out of apocalyptic thinking

Difference in food culture (wet market)

foreigners as invasive species -> biopolitics, lockdown

vs. Popper's model of the "Open Society" (vs. conspiracy theories), George Soros -> victory of neoliberalism; 
Bill Gates & Soros -> paranoid anti-biopolitics in the West

anti-vaxxers -> apocalyptic christianity -> conspiracy thinking -> Foucault's critique of biopolitics appropriated by the right -> example Agamben

words: 2000 words
deadline: summer, end of June