Revista de Știinţe Politice şi Relaţii Internaţionale (Mar 2021)
REFLECȚII CRITICE ÎN/DIN PANDEMIE
Abstract
Critical Reflections in/from the Pandemic reiterates some clarifying questions/comments regarding the current pandemic context, interested in the critical examinations/interpretations and positions (continued by conclusive explorations!) of Achille Mbembe. It is a critical modality, that of reflecting on crisis management in/from the pandemic and decoding current signs, which Achille Mbembe considers to be a set of elements – raw and with dense force – with a recognized effect in the applied triad – separation-scission-isolation. The reflections available are invested with a dual purpose: the first aims, through the volume Necropolitics (2019), to update/anticipate the problems and the tense conflicts that exist and manifest today (from overpopulation, to exit from democracy, to the act of terror and violence, etc.), coordinates that function (from a philosophical-political perspective), both as medication and poison, able to recompose, "as in an ossuary", the skeleton-architectural project of today's world; the second opinion emerges from the article-post “The Universal Right to Breathe” (2020), which transmits, punctually-punctuated, the imperative of returning to the body, with the aim of assembling (vivifying) it, with the necessary energy for survival, by returning to the vital function of breathing, managing to overcome the suffocating intervals of the present, by transgressing from the hypostasis of the ossuary to the “sanctuary of the living”, freed from proliferated tensions and brutalities. Starting from two concepts with clear meanings – biopower and sovereignty – the present article will approach two other movements [following the invitation launched by Achille Mbembe, that of placing ourselves in a dynamic (textual) flow, with a continuous movement in order to decide the action to be taken!] from the comments/studies of Michel Foucault and Georges Bataille.
