I riti di Covid
dc.contributor.author | Timothy Campbell | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-11-07T09:34:15Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-11-07T09:34:15Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023-10-24 | |
dc.description | Lezione data alla Sapienza, 24 ottobre 2023 | |
dc.description.abstract | This essay draws on the thought of the Italian philologist Carlo Diano and his notion of “eventic forms”, to theorize a series of responses to Giorgio Agamben’s objections to anti-COVID measures. Challenging Agamben on the nature of event and its forms during the pandemic, it becomes possible to ask what eventic forms beyond bare life can be thought that do not inevitably lead either to myth or sacrifice. The essay does so by employing the thought of both René Girard and Mario Perniola as a way of reading many of the rituals associated with the COVID-19 pandemic not as ones leading to sacrifice but instead as potential examples of what Perniola terms “ritual without myth”. The essay concludes with a reflection on the need to restrain linking gestures to collective or individual belief. | |
dc.description.sponsorship | Università della Sapienza, Rome | |
dc.identifier.citation | Covid as Event | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://www.degruyter.com/document/doi/10.1515/9783110799361/html?lang=en | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1813/113694 | |
dc.language.iso | it | |
dc.publisher | De Gruyter | |
dc.relation.doi | https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110799361 | |
dc.relation.hasversion | This is an Italian translation with a few added paragraphs near the end | |
dc.rights | Attribution-NoDerivatives 4.0 International | en |
dc.rights.uri | http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nd/4.0/ | |
dc.subject | biopolitics, Covid, Event | |
dc.title | I riti di Covid | |
dc.type | conference papers and proceedings |