"The struggle against power is the struggle of memory against forgetting". Use our app, Before&Now, to define your Corona-reality

To access app, click the picture above, or click here

 The lockdown of Corona begins to ease, but the question (as our essayist Jen Stout wrote yesterday) has to be asked. “Lots of people have been looking around and thinking: ‘This is different. Some of this is better. What will we get to keep?’”

The latest set of updates to Before&Now app, 31/5/2020

Figuring out how to answer that question is why we launched, with AUK co-creator Sam Weller, an app, using the Glide software platform, called Before&Now (available here and above).

It’s designed as an easy way for you to capture the shifts, internal and external, that the Coronavirus has made in you, the people you know, the wider world/system. You can use your home computer browser or your mobile browser (in fact, it’s nicer to read and use on your mobile).

We’ve had some great activity on it so far, some of which we’ll screengrab and show below. But we think the app has a good bit more distance to travel, so we’re re-promoting it again here.

The Milan Kundera quote in the headline of this blog may seem a little dramatic. But it seems really important to seize the meaning and experience of coronavirus away from those establishment forces who want to build a “new normal” that’s not that much different from the old one - and who might want us to suppress some of the more radical insights that we might have taken from the experience.

So please, do contribute to the Before&Now app - it’s easy to do so, from supermarket queue to domestic couch, on any devices that you have handy (link here).

Some of the entries so far: