Consequences of a Health Crisis. Ideas Kit for the Understanding of the Coronavirus and its Informational Techno-Pandemic.

Abstract

The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which causes COVID-19 disease, has generated an unprecedented health crisis, the first universal pandemic in history. This phenomenon is gradually being explained by science. But it is not enough to explain it, it is also necessary to understand it. The main objective pursued here is, from the methodological perspective of philosophical Hermeneutics, the understanding of the pandemic crisis. The metamorphosis that this crisis is producing in the notions of “reality” and “subjectivity” and its repercussion on communication is analyzed. There are two main vectors that lead to the results of this reflection: 1) the pandemic and the new normality make the exception the rule; 2) this has been possible because what was initially a biological mutation has become a series of conflicting disruptive innovations, which governments are controlling through technopolitical measures of social discipline such as domestic confinement. Thus, the coronavirus mutates into an information techno-virus that is transmitted through the media and social networks, infecting human brains and provoking new ways of thinking, acting and living. An info-pandemic, whose mental damage is expected to exceed the organic damage. It can then be concluded that it is not the viral health crisis what is transforming the normality of life on the street, but the techno-political actions taken to confront it, even though the blame goes to the previously techno-personalized coronavirus. We will surely overcome the pandemic, but perhaps at the cost of the info-pandemic having overcome us once and for all.