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Julkaisun tekijät: Brunila T, Lehtinen M
Kustantaja: Tutkijaliitto
Julkaisuvuosi: 2020
Journal: Tiede & Edistys
Tietokannassa oleva lehden nimi: Tiede & edistys
Volyymi: 45
Julkaisunumero: 3
ISSN: 0356-3677
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.51809/te.109667
Verkko-osoite: https://tiedejaedistys.journal.fi/article/view/109667
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In this article, we analyze the political ontology of the nation state in the context of the pandemic and consider how the virus has been made a part of it. Our argument is that the discourse regarding a war on the virus embodies an attempt to control the chronic insecurity and anxiety caused by the pandemic. Combining the work of Cornelius Castoriadis and the affect theoretical approach of Andreja Zevnik and Brian Massumi, we build a framework through which we make intelligible the foundational role played by historically constituted shared networks of meaning and the political ontology it creates, as well as the affects leaning on it in our reactions towards the pandemic. By analyzing Carl Schmitt{\textquoteright}s understanding of politics we locate the political ontology framing the pandemic as an ontology of war. Through this we make visible how the management of insecurity through the distinction between friend and enemy becomes an affective channel for the insecurity caused by the pandemic.
In this article, we analyze the political ontology of the nation state in the context of the pandemic and consider how the virus has been made a part of it. Our argument is that the discourse regarding a war on the virus embodies an attempt to control the chronic insecurity and anxiety caused by the pandemic. Combining the work of Cornelius Castoriadis and the affect theoretical approach of Andreja Zevnik and Brian Massumi, we build a framework through which we make intelligible the foundational role played by historically constituted shared networks of meaning and the political ontology it creates, as well as the affects leaning on it in our reactions towards the pandemic. By analyzing Carl Schmitt{\textquoteright}s understanding of politics we locate the political ontology framing the pandemic as an ontology of war. Through this we make visible how the management of insecurity through the distinction between friend and enemy becomes an affective channel for the insecurity caused by the pandemic.
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