One of the aspects of this strange time is how the extremes start to meet and how certain

discourses can be held in opposition within a very same team and then can also be held

the two opposite discourses can be held within the team that they're supposedly opposing.

So what I want to do right now is

that in the wake of the COVID crisis, as we're still going through it, and it's still playing out

politically, I want to show you some postmodern strategies and how postmodern theorists and postmodern

activists used the structure of viral infection to affect society.

They did this consciously, they did this deliberately, and so we're going to look at that

and how it is very strange to see the discourse has flipped one side and the other in this situation.

This is Jonathan Peugeot. Welcome to the symbolic world.

One of the reasons why I am quite worried right now to see where things are going. And this, of course, has been, I've been sounding the alarm

at different levels since I started speaking online. Obviously not doing it all the time because

who wants to hear someone screech all the time. But I haven't sounded the alarm at the danger

that is ahead of us of noticing the extremes start to manifest themselves, to notice the extremes

of chaos and mixture and madness right up to the extremes of control and order and, you know,

hyper-naming the idea of completely identifying and controlling on the other side.

And so one of the fascinating and disturbing things that have happened since World War II

is, of course, the rise of postmodern thought and post-modern action.

Now, I've talked about Jacques Derrida before, and so I want to

quote something from Jacques Derrida. I'm going to go through two quotes, one from

Jacques Derrida and another from a more contemporary source on queer theory, and we're going to

look at how they use the image of infection and the virus to defend the way or to talk about the manner in which they wish to affect society.

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