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Where Did Macy Go? consists of a series reports of Macy’s encounter with the epidemic, life during the quarantine, his death and revival. The work discusses the collapse of old community structures, the emergence of a new community after decollectivization, Confucian obedience vs. social obedience, as well as the new tele-republic of home, “mask politics” and social justice under the pandemic. The work is a response to this era of volatility, complexity and confusion.

In this chapter, I restored Hugh Hefner’s famous rounded bed in Chicago (which was seen as one of the oldest and most known work-from-home examples) while Macy’s version is hundreds of times more advanced technologically. Macy fits perfectly into the new type of quarantine on this bed where there’s no distance between work, pleasure, production and sex. All kinds of remote communication and electronic devices are connected through Macy’s fingertips to the new immunological community