Red Alerts: A Reflective Assemblage
This article considers the resonances between Edgar Allan Poes The Masque of the Red Death: A Fantasy (1842) and our contemporary moment and pandemic context by drawing this storys central deployment of the colour red into relation with the red alerts of twenty-first-century crises. I place The Masq...
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| description | This article considers the resonances between Edgar Allan Poes The Masque of the Red Death: A Fantasy (1842) and our contemporary moment and pandemic context by drawing this storys central deployment of the colour red into relation with the red alerts of twenty-first-century crises. I place The Masque of the Red Death in connection with the UK governments COVID-19 alert level chart, in which red announces the most serious level of risk, as well as the US Homeland Security Advisory System chart produced following 9/11, which the UK alert chart closely resembles. Marshalling Tobias Menely and Margaret Rondas work on the cultural meanings tied to the colour red, and Brian Massumis reflections on the US Homeland Security Advisory System and contemporary power, politics, and affect, I discuss how the red alerts assembled in this article are each infused with stress, fear and uncertainty and subtended by exclusions and erosions of care. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-fa0b57ce925c4fd6a2d0d6f2bfcccc4b2023-04-17T07:21:03ZcatLiverpool University PressModern Languages Open2052-53972023-03-01110.3828/mlo.v0i0.410303Red Alerts: A Reflective AssemblageLucy Bollington0https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8911-130XUCLThis article considers the resonances between Edgar Allan Poes The Masque of the Red Death: A Fantasy (1842) and our contemporary moment and pandemic context by drawing this storys central deployment of the colour red into relation with the red alerts of twenty-first-century crises. I place The Masque of the Red Death in connection with the UK governments COVID-19 alert level chart, in which red announces the most serious level of risk, as well as the US Homeland Security Advisory System chart produced following 9/11, which the UK alert chart closely resembles. Marshalling Tobias Menely and Margaret Rondas work on the cultural meanings tied to the colour red, and Brian Massumis reflections on the US Homeland Security Advisory System and contemporary power, politics, and affect, I discuss how the red alerts assembled in this article are each infused with stress, fear and uncertainty and subtended by exclusions and erosions of care.https://account.modernlanguagesopen.org/index.php/up-j-mlo/article/view/410 |
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