COVID-19: Mourning, Knowledge and Improvisation

As we live and die through the continuing pandemic, one particular affect that relates us globally is of dead awaiting their funerary repose. Assessing Arif (2020) in an early reflection proposes might benefit our assessment ‘bio-social’ pandemic by admitting to sovereignty virus. Borrowing this premise, I suggest further virus acutely manifested commingled presence living unreposed temporary, improvised morgues. Although quite unprecedented, it can be partially recognised knowledges gained mourning register how disasters force a ‘descent’ (Das 2006) ‘fall’ (Rosaldo 2014) into accepting improvisation life death forms. This descent fall towards abyss risking very continuum life, but what also gain from discerning relation with knowledge regained at many levels fall. Just as manifest virus, ethically attested social surface regaining life. It my contention full-time improvisation, which turn must its own source, energy end, operate facing dead. Deriving extending work studying dead, present essay shows two brief assemblages bacteriophage media morgue. The built arrive conclusion classic trope cycle anthropology has seen part complex texture where vitality are concurrent overlapping.