By erasing the hot autumn from our history, an intelligibility scheme of reality is removed, a scheme which has at its core an idea of man (of the worker) as a citizen, as a homo civilis. An anthropology that already in the sixties of the last century was the target of another representation, the neoliberal one of the human capital. An intelligibility scheme of reality which has at its core the homo oeconomicus, a man whose conducts are determined exclusively by the cost/benefit code. With the coronavirus pandemic the neoliberal anthropology ended up in quarantine, in the wait for a vaccine that immunize us from the invisible enemy. The promise will likely be fulfilled. But in the meantime, the doubt has crept into the magnificent and progressive fate of neoliberal capitalism. It is a widespread feeling that the infrastructures of globalization have contributed to the pandemic spread of the virus, to expose (also) the opulent West world to a catastrophic pandemic. The theme of the salvation of the society returns to the main agenda. Many persons return to applaud the virtues of the homo civilis. In solidarity with the doctors and nurses at work for our lives and with the workers on strike to defend the safety of their working conditions. Is the hot autumn about to take an unexpected revenge? Or, at the end of the emergency, will prevail a social-Darwinist model of regulation of working and social life?
Cinquant'anni dopo l’autunno caldo (con un Post Scriptum su pandemia e stato di normalità)
Cantaro
2020
Abstract
By erasing the hot autumn from our history, an intelligibility scheme of reality is removed, a scheme which has at its core an idea of man (of the worker) as a citizen, as a homo civilis. An anthropology that already in the sixties of the last century was the target of another representation, the neoliberal one of the human capital. An intelligibility scheme of reality which has at its core the homo oeconomicus, a man whose conducts are determined exclusively by the cost/benefit code. With the coronavirus pandemic the neoliberal anthropology ended up in quarantine, in the wait for a vaccine that immunize us from the invisible enemy. The promise will likely be fulfilled. But in the meantime, the doubt has crept into the magnificent and progressive fate of neoliberal capitalism. It is a widespread feeling that the infrastructures of globalization have contributed to the pandemic spread of the virus, to expose (also) the opulent West world to a catastrophic pandemic. The theme of the salvation of the society returns to the main agenda. Many persons return to applaud the virtues of the homo civilis. In solidarity with the doctors and nurses at work for our lives and with the workers on strike to defend the safety of their working conditions. Is the hot autumn about to take an unexpected revenge? Or, at the end of the emergency, will prevail a social-Darwinist model of regulation of working and social life?I documenti in IRIS sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
