No time for fun: the politics of partying during a pandemic

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dc.citation.issue2-3
dc.citation.volume35
dc.contributor.authorHolm N
dc.date.accessioned2023-09-20T22:02:32Z
dc.date.accessioned2023-10-12T22:16:20Z
dc.date.available2023-09-20T22:02:32Z
dc.date.available2023-10-12T22:16:20Z
dc.date.issued2021-05-04
dc.date.updated2023-09-20T04:46:26Z
dc.descriptionen
dc.description.abstractIn 2020, in the face of the unparalleled epidemiological threat posed by Covid-19, multiple governments around the world sought to contain the spread of the virus by imposing strict lockdown measures that dramatically limited the movement and gathering of citizens. Not only did these restrictions severely curtail the regular patterns of economic, political and cultural life, they also made it very hard to have fun. While this last point may appear flippant, this article proposes that a proper accounting for fun is absolutely necessary if we are to understand not just the challenges passed by lockdown measures, but also the legal and biomedical risks people were willing to take to engage in activities like hosting parties, surfing and attending raves, during a pandemic. Arguing against the idea of fun as a form of displaced political practice, I instead suggest that fun is best understood as an example of contingent, non-transcendent aesthetic value that is absolutely central to everyday desire and the appeal of popular culture. Often easy to overlook, the experience of lockdown brought the appeal and importance of fun into sharp relief in ways that point towards the powerful role fun plays in shaping our lives both during a pandemic and (hopefully) after.
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dc.format.extent452-461
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dc.identifier.citationHolm N. (2021). No time for fun: the politics of partying during a pandemic. Cultural Studies. 35. 2-3. (pp. 452-461).
dc.identifier.doi10.1080/09502386.2021.1898026
dc.identifier.eissn1466-4348
dc.identifier.elements-typejournal-article
dc.identifier.harvestedMassey_Dark
dc.identifier.issn0950-2386
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10179/20212
dc.publisherTaylor and Francis Group
dc.relation.isPartOfCultural Studies
dc.rights(c) The author CC BY-NCen
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/en
dc.subjectFun
dc.subjectlockdown
dc.subjectcovid-19
dc.subjectpandemic
dc.subjectaesthetics
dc.subjectpolitics
dc.titleNo time for fun: the politics of partying during a pandemic
dc.typeJournal article
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