Soup of Letters: elucubrations around COVID-19 or how to make discursive broth with a global virus

Authors

  • Viviane Bagiotto Botton Laboratorio de Filosofías Contemporáneas; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24215/16696581e276

Keywords:

Biopolitics, Nation-State, Precariousness, Discourse, Gobernabilidad

Abstract

This paper start from the recent publication, in Spanish language, with a collection of articles, interviews and essays launch by famous critics and political thinkers about the COVID-19 pandemic. That publication was titled Sopa de Wuhan: pensamento contemporáneo en tiempos de pandemias. From there, we tried to pull strings that would lead us to reflect in detail about important issues in the current situation. The goal here was to think through the stream of consciousness method and to consider some problems inherent of those publications. The Soup metaphor was followed as a common thread and also as a reflection engine.

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Author Biography

Viviane Bagiotto Botton, Laboratorio de Filosofías Contemporáneas; Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro

Doctora en Filosofía por la UNAM; investigadora de pos-doctorado en la UERJ_Universidade do Estado do Rio de Janeiro; integra el Laboratorio de Filosofías Contemporáneas Filosofías do Tempo do Agora en la UFRJ _ Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro, dentro del cual es una de las fundadoras del núcleo de estudos sobre histeria. Cf.: https://tempodoagora.wixsite.com/tempodoagora

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Published

2020-05-15

How to Cite

Bagiotto Botton, V. (2020). Soup of Letters: elucubrations around COVID-19 or how to make discursive broth with a global virus. Question/Cuestión, 1(mayo), e276. https://doi.org/10.24215/16696581e276