Home is …?

“Now, when I am writing these words, it strikes me that where I am has turned into a heterotopia—I am writing at home, where I have been self-isolating over several weeks, the usual, familiar setting becomes an estranged, crisis “other” space, and the same quiet, invisible transformation has happened to many homes, hotel rooms, hospitals, cruisers that are not allowed to reach shores, and cities that are shut down, countries that close doors to the outside, and even the entire planet that looks differently now that human activities are greatly reduced, and atmosphere, climate as well as ecosystems have quietly changed.” 

— — Mingwei Song, The Fear of Seeing (forthcoming)