I was invited to submit a short, poetic piece to a special issue of 'Parallax' as an 'influential contemporary thinker'. The special edited issue focuses on the epistemological changes and challenges brought in by the covid epidemic and as such comes under the title 'Pandemonium'. The brief was as follows: Critical theorists have deconstructed knowledge production from many different perspectives. Directly or indirectly, they have addressed the intangible and material/political being of epistemology. If critique is always interested, embodied and emerges from particular contexts, given the current planetary predicament when knowing is changing its being, we want to ask, what sustains critique? How have the full stop of lockdowns around the globe and the certainty of ‘no planet b’, for example, challenged, puzzled, contradicted, deemed insignificant, and proved relevant, the premises that sustain our practices of knowing?

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