Mortification of the Flesh

Facebook’s metaverse v. the so-called “meat-verse”

For the past few months I’ve been in Berlin, where as part of a fellowship I am ostensibly writing a novel and bothering economists about narrative frameworks for economic transformation re: climate change. My main activity so far, however, has been catching every non-corona’d virus Germany has to offer. I got a throat thing, stayed home for a bit, then…