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AbstractDuring the first months of 2020, our everyday life suddenly changed when the novel Coronavirus started to infect humans at a very fast rate, causing serious respiratory and other diseases, death, and fear of the unknown. Local friends and family members shared traumatic stories, images, and videoclips about death and dread in Northern Italy, where the first confirmed COVID-19 cases were discovered, just two months after the virus was first detected in Wuhan, China (Worobey, 2021). Inspired byBakhtin's (1981)notion of chronotope, by autoethnography and phenomenology, within a linguistic anthropological framework, this article examines how individuals have been embodying COVID-19 related uncertainties and fears in their everyday life. Through the analysis of (auto)ethnographic narratives, recontextualized images and videoclips, including the ones related to the 1918–1920 influenza pandemic, I show how regionalizedchronotopes of warand more globalchronotopes of dreadhave emerged and solidified across pandemic times.

This article examines a Senegalese narrative practice in which speakers make co-present individuals into denoted characters in their stories, a process I refer to as "participant transposition." I analyze participant transposition in illness narratives recorded in Dakar, Senegal, during phases of which I am even recruited to play the part of the narrator's past self. I demonstrate how this narrative practice allows speakers to calibrate the realm of the story (the denotational text) with the storytelling event (the interactional text). (Illness narrative, Transposition, Textuality, Interaction, Senegal)

Abstract
In this introduction we discuss the centrality of the management and perception of space-time coordinates during
the Covid-19 crisis and highlight some of the main themes that contributors develop in their articles. In particular, we analyze
how contributors' elaborations of the notion of chronotope involve a discussion of fundamental issues such as the
conceptualization of context, the relationships of chronotopes with ideologies, the configuration and interpretation of meanings
at different levels, and their social circulation.
In the second part of the introduction we discuss in what ways, by taking up a chronotopic lens, the contributors
provide new insights into some of the social processes of meaning making and changes in social relations that have been emerging
during the pandemic.

Intro -- Preface -- Writing Viral -- Contents -- About the Authors -- List of Figures -- Chapter 1: Part I: The First Wave -- On the Periphery -- Screen Memories -- A Week of (Not) Knowing -- To Be AND Not to Be a Citizen -- Virtual Mourning, Virtual Loss -- Déjà vu -- The Viral Sublime -- Anger -- Flickers of Ordinariness -- Microphantasms of the Pandemic -- Memento mori -- Legislative Intimacies -- The Other World, or Cacophony and Ethnography in Malaysia -- Communicating with and Through a Face Mask -- Family -- Sanitizing New York -- On Shopping and the Desire to Buy Shit During a Pandemic -- The Workout -- No Mask -- Queer life in Quarantine -- Stroud Playground -- Touch (In Progress) -- Gentle Exile -- Dancing With in COVID-19 -- Chapter 2: Part II: The Second Wave -- "It's Covidtastic" -- The Morning Commute -- Toothpaste -- DiCTATURe eN COURS -- How Everything Can Collapse -- Virtual Travels -- Rinse and Repeat -- Music -- I Lost You -- Working From Home -- Nine days -- Online Lifeline -- Migrants' Stories in Pandemic Times -- Transnational Pain -- Breathing with Others -- The Paranoid Style -- Goldilocks-Down -- Chronochromatic Maps -- Alone, Performing to the Wall -- Fresh Flowers and State Violence -- Deferred Returns -- Chapter 3: Part III: Photos from the New Year -- Change (Figs. 3.1 and 3.2) -- Boy, It's Scary Out There -- The Same River Twice (Fig. 3.5) -- A Sign of the Times (Fig. 3.6) -- Photo of a Photo (Fig. 3.7) -- Listen to Nature! (Fig. 3.8) -- Getting Ready for a Lonely New Year's Eve Party (Fig. 3.9) -- Creation Destruction Creation... (Fig. 3.10) -- Tree Disposal (Fig. 3.11) -- Winter Evening in Savoy, Illinois (Fig. 3.12) -- Chapter 4: Part IV: Calculations -- Viral Load -- COVID-19 Daily Spatiotemporal Calculations -- The Calculi of Pleasure -- 2021 -- Vaccine on the Mind -- The Second (And Third) Shift.