Open AccessThe uneasy mirror of a virus
Author(s) -
Cristian Pralea
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
bulletin of the "transilvania" university of braşov. series iv, philology and cultural studies
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 2066-7698
pISSN - 2066-768X
DOI - 10.31926/but.pcs.2020.62.13.2.1
Subject(s) - covid-19 , pandemic , political science , political economy , connection (principal bundle) , sociology , law and economics , engineering , virology , medicine , disease , structural engineering , pathology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
"This paper unfolds as a questioning of the Covid-19 global crisis, trying to uncover what our societies’ reactions to the pandemic signify. Using Rafael Capurro’s connection between the two concepts of pandemia and infodemia, the paper asserts that the Covid-19 crisis reveals a much older and deeper crisis of our democracies. It is about a gradual waning of the role humanities are playing, that eventually has thrown us into a situation in which we cannot properly deal with the amount of information flowing through our lives. The paper calls for a general reconsidering of this role as an opportunity offered by this global crisis itself."