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The Digital Pandemic: Imagination in Times of Isolation

Autor João Pedro Cachopo
en Limba Engleză Paperback – 15 iun 2022
A refreshing approach to the dominance of technology in our contemporary lives, The Digital Pandemic, translated from Portuguese, poses fundamental questions about love, fear, connectedness, proximity, imagination and consciousness.Arguing that the pandemic has ushered in a civilizational digital shock, João Pedro Cachopo charts new channels of relatedness and communication between people through digital technologies for the foreseeable future. The transformation of human experience that began in 2020 creates a break in our sociality that Cachopo pinpoints through key themes of love, travel, study, community and art.In contrast to the growing philosophical literature on the pandemic, this bold theoretical work does not prophesy the fall of capitalism or the end of personal freedom and relationships. Instead, this book carefully investigates the advanced technology that is increasingly inextricable from our lives, using an alternative approach that avoids pessimism, while remaining alert to the risks and threats of the digital age. It opens up the possibility of fostering global solidarity and consciousness beyond physical borders in the 21st century.
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Specificații

ISBN-13: 9781350284296
ISBN-10: 1350284297
Pagini: 128
Dimensiuni: 138 x 216 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.45 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Bloomsbury Academic
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom

Caracteristici

Sheds light on changes in the perception of proximity and distance in relation to love, travel, study, community and art

Notă biografică

João Pedro Cachopo teaches Philosophy of Music at the New University of Lisbon, Portugal. His essays have appeared in journals such as New German Critique and The Opera Quarterly.

Cuprins

Prologue: The Pandemic Is Not the Event 1. The Role of Philosophy in Times of Uncertainty 2. Questions, Hypotheses, Suspicions 3. Topology of the Imagination 4. Apocalypse Remediated 5. The Disruption of the Senses Love Travel Study Community Art Epilogue: Our World After the Pandemic Index

Recenzii

A marvellous meditation on the spatial and temporal reorientation brought to light by the pandemic. Covering isolation in the home, and the shock of a new daily existence that produces distinct aesthetic experiences, Cachopo explores the digital pandemic through globalization, inequality, biopolitics, technology and disaster capitalism.
From Agamben to Zizek, anyone interested in a sober, witty, and productive critique of the ways in which the pandemic has influenced our ways of loving, studying, traveling, coexisting, and creating should read this book.
Among countless books and articles on the COVID-19 crisis, The Digital Pandemic stands out. It is a compelling meditation on the isolation that we have experienced. Philosophically sophisticated and yet thoroughly readable, the book offers fresh insight into the physical separation and digital proximity of life during this unpredictable pandemic.
Speaking to the urgency of our times, this is a short, incisive book that manages to slow down. Cachopo's analysis moves the critical literature on the pandemic along by highlighting how digital media reshapes the conditions of human imagination.