In accordance with an agreement reached with Routledge, many of the previously available papers that were found in these Tribunes on the Coronavirus have been permanently removed. These essays are included in the book: Coronavirus, Psychoanalysis and Philosophy: Conversations on Pandemics, Politics and Society (Editors: Fernando Castrillón & Thomas Marchevsky), Routledge, 2021.
Discourse
February 2020 - May 2020
Coronavirus and Philosophers: A Tribune
Miguel Vatter
Stay Safe, Protect the Health System, Save Lives
May 10, 2020
"The new slogan may signal that the outcome of the pandemic is that our well-being has now become a matter for national security."
Daniel Smith
On the Viral Event
June 25, 2020
“[T]he bare repetition of old critical tropes is just another way of protecting previous modes of thinking from having to change, while suggesting that the coronavirus does not pose any fundamental challenges to contemporary philosophy.”
Achille Mbembe, Diogo Bercito
The Pandemic Democratizes the Power to Kill: An Interview with Achille Mbembe
May 2, 2020
“The coronavirus is changing the form in which we think about the human body.”
Renato Cristi
Pandemics and Philosophy
April 4, 2020
“We face here a misguided philosophy, one that jeopardizes the government’s ability to preserve the lives of thousands of citizens.”
Massimo Cacciari
Our Homes are Hell: Interview with Massimo Cacciari
March 27, 2020
“Assholes are always the same, the same as before the Coronavirus.”
Giorgio Agamben
Reflections on the Plague
March 27, 2020
"That is why—once the emergency, the plague, is declared over, if it is—I do not believe that, at least for those who have maintained a minimum of lucidity, it will be possible to return to life as it was before.”
Michel Foucault, Giorgio Agamben & Sergio Benvenuto
Coronavirus and Philosophers
February 26, 2020
“The following, according to an order published at the end of the seventeenth century, were the measures to be taken when the plague appeared in a town.”
