This chapter consists of diffracted pieces of writings of the two authors, produced in the form of a dialogue, in response to various questions that they posed to each other pertaining to hauntology, response-ability and non-innocence during the time of the coronavirus pandemic. The chapter evolved over a few months of writing together/apart in different geopolitical locations and time zones using online writing software. Bozalek and Holscher use their diffracted writings to consider how the rupturing of time brought by the coronavirus pandemic has given higher education an opportunity to reassess prevailing obsessions with “progress” and “success”, and an opportunity to realise that human lives are seriously under threat. This sensibility provides the possibility for a renewed sense of accountability and response-ability towards all human and non/more-than-human lives.