Afterword: Breath-Taking—Ethical Impulses for Breath Studies

Abstract This essay explores various interconnecting and cross-cutting threads that run through this volume. Alighting on ‘conspiration’ other common themes dominate the book, afterword considers contribution of essays in their vast historical, cultural, thematic milieux, sees them as potential building blocks for a ‘breath studies’. And yet, by placing book within context COVID-19 pandemic, we might worry whether conspiration may be at threat. It strict government regulations which have sought to constrain spread disease suppressing social interactions togetherness eroding our political ethical capacities share air.