DI CESARE, Donatella. Vírus Soberano? A Asfixia Capitalista
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https://doi.org/10.36592/opiniaofilosofica.v12.1023Keywords:
Di Cesare, COVID-19, Capitalist asphyxia, Phobocracy, VulnerabilityAbstract
ABSTRACT: this review presents the ideas defended by the Italian philosopher Donatella Di Cesare in her book Sovereign Virus? The Capitalist Asphyxia. Her thesis is that the COVID-19 pandemic unveiled the immune paradigm of Western democracies, thus intensifying the capitalist asphyxia we are experiencing, characterized above all by the atmosphere of total and invisible terror. Such unveiling and intensification occurs because the virus interrupted the acceleration we were used to living with, which causes a tetanization of the world. COVID-19 showed how fear is imbricated in modernity, and how it has become the motto of neoliberal governance. Our aim here is to critically assess what Di Cesare argues, trying to answer the question she asks in the title of her book: sovereign virus? How has the coronavirus managed to affect our lives so abruptly and the philosophical consequences of this? We will also discuss what solutions Di Cesare proposes for our post-COVID-19 paradigm.
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