{"id":4025,"date":"2020-02-22T09:55:00","date_gmt":"2020-02-22T09:55:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/?p=4025"},"modified":"2026-10-23T11:05:54","modified_gmt":"2026-10-23T11:05:54","slug":"ten-nonillion-particles-and-five-million-incidents","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/index.php\/2020\/02\/22\/ten-nonillion-particles-and-five-million-incidents\/4025","title":{"rendered":"Ten Nonillion Particles and Five Million Incidents"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"fonts-plugin-block \" style=\"font-family: EB+Garamond;font-size: 25px;text-align: center\"><em><strong>Ten Nonillion Particles and Five Million Incidents:<\/strong><\/em><br><em><strong>Thinking in COVID 19 Time<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons alignwide is-horizontal is-content-justification-center is-layout-flex wp-container-core-buttons-is-layout-ee095044 wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-font-size has-regular-font-size\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-red-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"#read\" style=\"border-radius:30px\">Read Here<\/a><\/div>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-button has-custom-font-size has-regular-font-size\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link has-vivid-red-color has-white-background-color has-text-color has-background wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Ten-Nonillion-Particles-and-Five-Million-Incidents.pdf\" style=\"border-radius:30px\">Download<\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<div data-wp-interactive=\"core\/file\" id=\"read\" class=\"wp-block-file\"><object data-wp-bind--hidden=\"!state.hasPdfPreview\" hidden class=\"wp-block-file__embed\" data=\"https:\/\/works.raqsmediacollective.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/02\/Ten-Nonillion-Particles-and-Five-Million-Incidents.pdf\" type=\"application\/pdf\" style=\"width:100%;height:1130px\" aria-label=\"PDF embed\"><\/object><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\" style=\"font-size:17px\">In this essay, Raqs Media Collective frames COVID\u201119, noting that an estimated 10\u00b3\u00b9 (ten nonillion) viral particles float in the air at any moment, making viruses the planet\u2019s most abundant \u201cbad news\u201d relative to human \u2018newsworthiness.\u2019<br>The text underscores how a seemingly invisible entity can reshape global social and biological networks.\u00a0Through these reflections, Raqs probes how the agency of \u201cunliving\u201d particles forces a reconsideration of presence, scale, and our sense of life\u2019s boundaries.<br><br><em>Published by the Goethe Institut, 2020<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In this essay, Raqs Media Collective frames COVID\u201119, noting that an estimated 10\u00b3\u00b9 (ten nonillion) viral particles float in the air at any moment, making viruses the planet\u2019s most abundant \u201cbad news\u201d relative to human \u2018newsworthiness.\u2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"aside","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4025","post","type-post","status-publish","format-aside","hentry","category-texts","post_format-post-format-aside","missing-thumbnail"],"gutentor_comment":0,"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v28.3 - 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