“We” Are In This Together, But We Are Not One and the Same

R. Braidotti

doi:10.1007/s11673-020-10017-8

“We” Are In This Together, But We Are Not One and the Same

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Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic is a man-made disaster, caused by undue interference in the ecological balance and the lives of multiple species. Paradoxically, the contagion has resulted in increased use of technology and digital mediation, as well as enhanced hopes for vaccines and biomedical solutions. It has thereby intensified humans’ reliance on the very high-tech economy of cognitive capitalism that caused the problems in the first place. This combination of ambivalent elements in relation to the Fourth Industrial revolution and the Sixth Extinction is the trademark of the posthuman condition. This essay explores this condition further, offering both critical and affirmative propositions for moving forward.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	465-469
Journal	Journal of Bioethical Inquiry
Volume	17
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-020-10017-8
Publication status	Published - Dec 2020

Keywords

COVID-19
Anthropocene
Posthumanism
Postcolonialism
Feminism
Intersectionality
Indigenous theories

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