The Ritual Threshold of COVID-19
05/13/20 • 48 min
The coronavirus pandemic has opened up a strange experience, something anthropologists call the liminal sphere. It's an alternative frame of reality that operates by its own rules. Can business learn to harness the power of ritual without resurrecting ancient regimes of social restriction? The key to this cultural innovation lies in improvisation.
The coronavirus pandemic has opened up a strange experience, something anthropologists call the liminal sphere. It's an alternative frame of reality that operates by its own rules. Can business learn to harness the power of ritual without resurrecting ancient regimes of social restriction? The key to this cultural innovation lies in improvisation.
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