An unprecedented anthropological break

Abstract

The health crisis recalls the close interdependence of our societies, the impossibility of closing the borders, because the virus is already here. The pandemic imposes a biopolitics due to issues that go beyond countries’ borders. The virus is the covert enemy from which it is necessary to immunize the social body through mask, physical distancing and limited contacts. The whole world has entered a phase of liminality that lacks instructions for use. A system of agreement of no trespass taken to its extreme enters the scene. This experience of the pandemic broke a certain carelessness in relation to the passing of days, brutally recalling the precariousness of existence. It reestablishes a scale of value hidden by our routines. The health crisis reminds us brutally and longingly of the price of priceless things.