As you well know, the milieu is a notion that only appears in biology with Lamarck. However, it is a notion that already existed in physics…. What is the milieu? It is what is needed to account for action at a distance of one body on another. It is therefore the medium of an action and element in which it circulates.
—Michel Foucault, Security, Territory, Population, 11 January 1978
It's really hard to feel like you're saving the world when you are watching Netflix from your couch. But if we do this right nothing happens. Yeah. A successful shelter in place means you're going to feel like it was all for nothing. And you'd be right, because nothing means nothing happened to your family.
—Emily Landon, MD, University of Chicago, 20 March 2020
The choice of the new word indicates that everybody knows that something new and decisive has...
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