It is difficult to write reflectively without the writing itself being stamped by its time-space context. We write in the context of an almost global lockdown; the political imposition--for that is what it is--of what the State of California more mellifluously calls ‘shelter-in-place’. In their homes, many are now writing the first drafts of a new context for subjective temporal reflection. In blogs, in Instagram, in web-forums and in countless other online and offline settings, they creatively use the uniqueness of the context to consider, or reconsider, what a sudden and radical irruption into the normal temporal flow of life for billions of people, actually means. Paul Virilio’s dromology theorised that gridlock is the consequence or risk of acceleration. The time-space of neoliberal globalisation accelerated the COVID-19 contagion, and lockdown has been our gridlock. In that sense gridlock (like acceleration) is a kind of temporal capture, a structural imposition that holds us in the space and time of our shelters and our own reflective and analytical capacities. And it is here, in our heads, if not our bodies, there is a kind of freedom.

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如果不以时空上下文来标记文字本身，就很难进行反思性的写作。我们在几乎全球锁定的情况下进行写作；加利福尼亚州更巧妙地称其为“就地庇护所”。现在，许多人正在他们的家中为主观性的时间反思撰写新情境的初稿。在博客，Instagram，网络论坛以及无数其他在线和离线环境中，他们创造性地使用上下文的独特性来考虑或重新考虑数十亿人突然或彻底地冲入正常的暂时性生活，实际上意味着。保罗·维里里奥（Paul Virilio）的语言学理论认为，僵局是加速的结果或风险。新自由主义全球化的时空加速了COVID-19的传播，锁定一直是我们的僵局。从这个意义上讲，僵局（像加速一样）是一种时间上的捕获，一种结构上的强加，使我们处于避难所的空间和时间以及我们自身的反射和分析能力中。在这里，在我们的头脑中，即使不是我们的身体，也存在一种自由。