At the outset of the corona crisis I wrote an article, about the essential uselessness of the term “corona cases“ in our public discourse at that moment. Leaning on the ideas of the Swiss linguist Saussure, who argued that all semantic meaning is relational, I described the term as a classic “empty” or “floating” signifier. Why? Because More
“New Corona Cases”: A Phrase That’s Tells us Very Little, if Anything, About the Actual Levels of Danger We Face
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