

Due to the global spread of COVID-19-the first cases of which were identified a few short months after the aforementioned lecture-the once obscure subject of quarantine has taken on new relevance. “If everyone at this event at some point in their life experiences quarantine, it wouldn’t be entirely surprising.” “I would go out on a limb and say that we are entering the age of quarantine,” Manaugh said toward the end of the presentation. In August of 2019, Geoff Manaugh and Nicola Twilley gave a lecture in Moscow on the phenomenon of quarantine.
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The authors of Until Proven Safe on the ongoing pandemic, the history of quarantine, and our existential precarity.
