“The collective realisation will be slow, but it will happen, and another idol of certitude may slowly emerge from the fallout. That idol might be the worship of Mother Gaia amidst the climate crisis, or the body of the oppressed minority in the pursuit of racial justice, or possibly an icon of homo technos, of the transhuman whose augmented being places him beyond the realm of worldly suffering. Neoliberalism is already toying with these idols, eyeing up and gauging each one, contemplating their utility and compatibility with the existing state of affairs.”

“Over the past eighteen months, a new theological aesthetic has arisen—an anti-image of Christianity in the form of Covid mania. It is a religion replete with its lab-coated priests, its anti-vax heretics, its hand-sanitising holy water, and its veiling mask.”