Post-Covid: What is cultural theory useful for?

This short piece explores what cultural theory should learn from the experience of global pandemic. It argues that main lesson not be about how crisis pandemic has been interpreted culturally, but deep social and economic inequalities which were foregrounded through ‘getting by’ in pandemic, positioned people very different ways. So dramatic have those inequalities, any inherited notion culture as something shared need to definitively abandoned. had already anticipated Ulf Hannerz’s deconstruction holistic notions three decades ago, it needs now acted on, we seek confront honestly growing make normal order everyday life possible.