Corona and communis: immunity, community, and the COVID-19

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https://doi.org/10.5902/2179378643447

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Anarchism, Biopolitics, Coronavirus, Political philosophy, Roberto Espósito, Social anthropology

Abstract

Faced with the New Coronavirus pandemic, many problems have been raised by the philosophy of the “immune” mode with which industrial civilization has dealt with the crisis, and much has been said about the need to rethink the notion of communities of support and resistance. Examples of this are not lacking; among the philosophers who have addressed the crisis are Giorgio Agamben to Paul B. Preciado, among others. In this article, we intend to start from the discussion on immunology and immune paradigm in Roberto Espósito to ask ourselves how we can think of this demand for “community” in the midst of an immunity crisis, in the biological and political sense of the term. We hypothesize that, rather than postulate the exclusive opposition of the terms, raising the question by their articulation opens us to two possible ways of relating to the abyssal otherness that we find in the virus.

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Maurício Fernando Pitta, Federal University of Uberlândia, Uberlândia, MG

Philosophy professor at the Federal University of Uberlândia, Uberlândia, MG. This work is financed by the Social Demand program of CAPES - financing code 001.

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2020-07-08

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Pitta, M. F. (2020). Corona and communis: immunity, community, and the COVID-19. Voluntas: International Journal of Philosophy, 11, e32. https://doi.org/10.5902/2179378643447

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Vol. 11 (2020): Special Issue: Pandemic and Philosophy

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