The Fitting memory. How the Covid-19 pandemic blended past with present?

Covid-19 brought back memories of past pandemics. In society, a pandemic imaginary was installed, framing an imaginary landscape, alongside a rationalized pandemic intellect to which the media contributed a lot. We live immersed in tele technologies, adding present to the past and past to the prese...

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Main Authors: Vítor de Sousa, Pedro Rodrigues Costa
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Universidade Estadual do Sudoeste da Bahia (UESB) 2022-08-01
Series:Revista Odeere
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Online Access:https://periodicos2.uesb.br/index.php/odeere/article/view/10763
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Summary:Covid-19 brought back memories of past pandemics. In society, a pandemic imaginary was installed, framing an imaginary landscape, alongside a rationalized pandemic intellect to which the media contributed a lot. We live immersed in tele technologies, adding present to the past and past to the present. At a time when home confinement became the rule, this was even more highlighted. In this screen technological Era, social practices were even more subject to the five great sociotechnical effects that condition information and the way it articulates memory and the present: ubiquity, instantaneity, acceleration, mobilization and presentism. This article intends to demonstrate the presence of the imaginary of past pandemics in the present (Applying Einstein's Theory of General Relativity), the way in which we appropriate these memories to create solutions and the way in which we mix the present with the solutions that came from the past.
ISSN:2525-4715