{"title":"The Pragmatic Nature of the Virus and its Biopolitical Drive","authors":"Marco A. Jiménez","doi":"10.22381/kc8320202","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"There are three expressions of the vital energies of the COVID-19 virus: from its idea, from the things and events in its ambit, and from its activity in establishing connections Its pragmatic nature consists in its capacity for heterogeneous connections between ideas about it, the things and events that it causes (sickness and death), and the actions that can be implemented to address it (policies) Human beings' response to it is not about one social class being confronted with another;neither is it a matter of conscience, of a struggle between the North and the South of Capital It is about biopolitics, about the exercise of power over the living We who live must give and guarantee life at all costs, no matter what it takes","PeriodicalId":37557,"journal":{"name":"Knowledge Cultures","volume":null,"pages":null},"PeriodicalIF":0.0000,"publicationDate":"2020-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"Knowledge Cultures","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.22381/kc8320202","RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":null,"ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"Q1","JCRName":"Arts and Humanities","Score":null,"Total":0}
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There are three expressions of the vital energies of the COVID-19 virus: from its idea, from the things and events in its ambit, and from its activity in establishing connections Its pragmatic nature consists in its capacity for heterogeneous connections between ideas about it, the things and events that it causes (sickness and death), and the actions that can be implemented to address it (policies) Human beings' response to it is not about one social class being confronted with another;neither is it a matter of conscience, of a struggle between the North and the South of Capital It is about biopolitics, about the exercise of power over the living We who live must give and guarantee life at all costs, no matter what it takes
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Knowledge Cultures is a multidisciplinary journal that draws on the humanities and social sciences at the intersections of economics, philosophy, library science, international law, politics, cultural studies, literary studies, new technology studies, history, and education. The journal serves as a hothouse for research with a specific focus on how knowledge futures will help to define the shape of higher education in the twenty-first century. In particular, the journal is interested in general theoretical problems concerning information and knowledge production and exchange, including the globalization of higher education, the knowledge economy, the interface between publishing and academia, and the development of the intellectual commons with an accent on digital sustainability, commons-based production and exchange of information and culture, the development of learning and knowledge networks and emerging concepts of freedom, access and justice in the organization of knowledge production.
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