Mittwoch, 22. April 2020

Crowned Death - On good living and dying in times of Corona


Dying & the modern culture's tendencial incapability to cope with it in any meaningful way seems to be one of the central, yet mostly unacknowledged trigger points that are fueling and distorting the debates around the current Corona crisis. In my article released today at skug | Musikkultur, I argue that we have to understand Covid-19 in relation to the Sixth Mass Extinction - we are, after all, part of the huge, manifold and vastly endangered biomass of this planet and to ignore this fact produces 1) a Backlash into rather trite and meaningless humanist sloganizations of oxymorons like "prevent every unnecessary death" 2) as well as it makes political critiques short-sighted in that they remain in the human, all-too-human realm of only seeing biopolitical regimes of state of exception without any grounding in more-than-human-relationality with other critters from viruses to bats and beyond.

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