This crisis of Corona has produced innumerable crises of and for education. Vamos’s skit has become a sad, accurate reproduction of the everyday experience of both students and teachers, now forced to study under digitalized, remote conditions resultant of the Covid-19 pandemic. ‘Shall I look over here? Over here, or over here?’, Igor ‘Yes Men’ Vamos asked his clueless and appalled students in a hilarious parody of our Zoom/Teams/Meet daily tragedy. Those who wished to do so anonymously, remain unnamed. * All interviews were conducted with students and teachers of John Cabot University in Rome, unless otherwise noted. This is a direct account, examination, and rebuttle, of what it means to be a teacher and a student during the techno-determinist moment of ‘the Corona Crisis’-a crises of education, embodiment, and alienation, in more ways than one. The emphasis lies throughout on withstanding naturalization and remaining in defiance of the ‘normalization’ efforts and narratives that pertain to all of the above. A counter-politics that finds and forms itself in the aural rather than the visual ( Intimacy Out of the Void), one that is most present (and most potent) in the ‘awkward moments’ of lags, lapses, glitches, bandwidth failures and frozen frames ( In Praise of Awkwardness).

Through anecdotes and personal accounts, we will enter a founding critique and examination that aims to walk these interactions and isolations with both compassion and criticality, towards a counter-politics reliant on exposure, as well as poesis. This essay combines the experiences of teachers and students* in the turn to ‘blended learning’ during the Covid-19 pandemic, to build prefatory theories of new, emergent phenomena-from the exhaustion produced by constant ‘self-gazing’ and its role in ‘zoom fatigue’, to the anxieties and oppressions of the dominant interfaces ( The Tyranny of the Rectangle) and their consequential resistance techniques ( Camera On, Or Camera Off: That is the Question). – Wayne Koestenbaum Teaching Into the Void Reflections on 'blended' learning and other digital amenities Speaking, I’m on display-a pornographic exhibit To penetrate the brooding, fierce, impenetrable presentation This category of desire is simple, slightly mechanistic: Or impassive with brooding or fierceness. Think of those humans who are attractive for the primary reason of how the presentation of their body is impenetrable or brooding or fierce Pictures in my head of the final destination Talking to myself all the way to the station Tried to save myself but my self keeps slipping away

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