Sartre’s seriality: Existential conceptualizations and an excursus on the Corona crisisIn his Critique of Dialectical Reason (1960) Sartre tried to clarify the dialectic betweendifferent levels of understanding, between theory and existential or factual praxis.Within the material realm of praxis, there are two forms of mediation: the group(oriented by a common interest) and the series. A series is an ordered gathering,such as a queue; but can also be the audience that listens to the radio; or the activityof smuggling gold out of Spain, in the 16th century. Sartre is unwilling to callseriality a concept, and I concur by emphasizing the variability of the phenomenonbut also its usefulness as a political term. I demonstrate that a pattern can befound among Sartre’s examples of seriality: a series can either be active or passive,reflective or unreflective. However, a series which is both active and reflected is ananomaly, since this means that the series transforms into the other form of mediation,the group, or even ”an organized Apocalypse”. In a short excursus I apply theseforms of seriality to the spring 2020 Corona crisis, where the political problem ofchoosing between patience and impatience is touched upon.