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What Went Wrong: Corona and the World after the Full Stop
Author(s) -
Caduff Carlo
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
medical anthropology quarterly
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.855
H-Index - 55
eISSN - 1548-1387
pISSN - 0745-5194
DOI - 10.1111/maq.12599
Subject(s) - seriousness , pandemic , happening , feeling , authoritarianism , politics , value (mathematics) , covid-19 , political science , environmental ethics , criminology , sociology , psychology , social psychology , history , disease , law , medicine , democracy , philosophy , pathology , machine learning , performance art , computer science , infectious disease (medical specialty) , art history
Abstract This article examines the global response to the Covid‐19 pandemic. It argues that we urgently need to look beyond the virus if we want to understand the real seriousness of what is happening today. How did we end up in a space of thinking, acting, and feeling that has normalized extremes and is based on the assumption that biological life is an absolute value separate from politics? The author suggests that today's fear is fueled by mathematical disease modeling, neoliberal health policies, nervous media reporting, and authoritarian longings.