Accelerazione. Riflessioni sulle temporalità della pandemia
The speed of the Covid-19 pandemic has imparted an acceleration – a "variation of velocity in the time unity" – to multiple social processes: that of political decision making, that of science in search of medical protocols and treatments, that of the use of new technologies, that of polit...
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| description | The speed of the Covid-19 pandemic has imparted an acceleration – a "variation of velocity in the time unity" – to multiple social processes: that of political decision making, that of science in search of medical protocols and treatments, that of the use of new technologies, that of political and biopolitical control techniques. But each of the different functional systems tackling the challenge of this global threat has its own rhythm and tempo, constrained by the nature of its own constitutive processes. How is this acceleration putting to test the extant social "time structures", and how is it altering the dynamics of their interactions? The conceptual tools developed by the critical theory of acceleration for interpreting the temporal paradoxes of late modernity may provide a key for reading the ongoing transformations, and help reasoning on the possible directions of this acceleration – in fact, as it is the case in physics, the direction of acceleration is not pregiven, it is rather the resultant of the directions and intensities of the forces which act upon a body. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-1b0cd5cd2f1b418981e3b56dd93a84642022-12-22T04:10:16ZengConsiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR)Laboratorio dell'ISPF1824-98172020-12-01171810.12862/Lab20CNSAccelerazione. Riflessioni sulle temporalità della pandemiaSilvia CaianielloThe speed of the Covid-19 pandemic has imparted an acceleration – a "variation of velocity in the time unity" – to multiple social processes: that of political decision making, that of science in search of medical protocols and treatments, that of the use of new technologies, that of political and biopolitical control techniques. But each of the different functional systems tackling the challenge of this global threat has its own rhythm and tempo, constrained by the nature of its own constitutive processes. How is this acceleration putting to test the extant social "time structures", and how is it altering the dynamics of their interactions? The conceptual tools developed by the critical theory of acceleration for interpreting the temporal paradoxes of late modernity may provide a key for reading the ongoing transformations, and help reasoning on the possible directions of this acceleration – in fact, as it is the case in physics, the direction of acceleration is not pregiven, it is rather the resultant of the directions and intensities of the forces which act upon a body.http://www.ispf-lab.cnr.it/2020_ CNS.pdfcovid-19 pandemicaccelerationsciencesocietypolitics |
| spellingShingle | Silvia Caianiello Accelerazione. Riflessioni sulle temporalità della pandemia Laboratorio dell'ISPF covid-19 pandemic acceleration science society politics |
| title | Accelerazione. Riflessioni sulle temporalità della pandemia |
| title_full | Accelerazione. Riflessioni sulle temporalità della pandemia |
| title_fullStr | Accelerazione. Riflessioni sulle temporalità della pandemia |
| title_full_unstemmed | Accelerazione. Riflessioni sulle temporalità della pandemia |
| title_short | Accelerazione. Riflessioni sulle temporalità della pandemia |
| title_sort | accelerazione riflessioni sulle temporalita della pandemia |
| topic | covid-19 pandemic acceleration science society politics |
| url | http://www.ispf-lab.cnr.it/2020_ CNS.pdf |
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