Quarantine: Contradictory Spatial Practice between Abstract and Concrete

Abstract

For one who is alone in a country where he or she has newly arrived, a quarantine is nothing but an incarceration that can barely be tolerated without having moments of mental breakdown. Although, this imposed isolation has the prospect of redemption at its end, the infinite scope of time during which that current situation will last is indeed problematic. Being in quarantine is a distinct experience where space-time duality loses its genuine meaning. Quarantine, by its very nature, is the spatialization of uncertainty in different ways, from uncertainty of being infected, of being healthy by segregating, of being in the safe zone, and of being isolated for an infinite time. Besides all these uncertainties, awareness of impossibility of keeping place of isolation pure from the ubiquitous microorganism causes this imposed seclusion to be seemed in vain. Hence, instead of panicking futilely, reflecting upon the new awareness that has emerged out of crisis will be an emancipatory path.