This article examines the early evidence for the emergence of new governmental regulations of intimacies during the COVID-19 pandemic based on the authors’ experience of hospital treatment in Russia. It discusses the increasingly used notion of ‘the new normal’ and its potential implications for citizen–state relations. Approaching these emerging regulations from both legal and anthropological perspectives, the authors propose the alternative concept of ‘the not-so-new normal’, which combines discursive ambiguity with familiar patterns of control. The notion of lawscape is used to systematise the bodily control practices inside and outside a Russian hospital and to place them in a wider context. Applying the concept of rupture, the authors claim that ‘the not-so-new normal’ obfuscates the break with pre–COVID-19 reality to reinforce existing hierarchies and inequalities.

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构建不那么新的常态

本文根据作者在俄罗斯的医院治疗经验，研究了在 COVID-19 大流行期间出现新的政府亲密关系法规的早期证据。它讨论了越来越多使用的“新常态”概念及其对公民与国家关系的潜在影响。作者从法律和人类学的角度探讨这些新兴法规，提出了“不那么新的常态”的替代概念，它将话语的模糊性与熟悉的控制模式相结合。法律景观的概念用于系统化俄罗斯医院内外的身体控制实践，并将其置于更广泛的背景下。应用破裂的概念，