La pandemie, un impossible «grand recit»?

The World Pandemic: an Impossible Storytelling?  Since 2020 the pandemic has been affecting the world population, bringing with it a proliferation of widely medialized images, symbols and myths. Has this collective catastrophe, which has upset the social and economic life of many countries, been a...

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Main Author: Jean-Jacques Wunenburger
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Mimesis Edizioni, Milano 2021-09-01
Series:Im@go. A Journal of the Social Imaginary
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Online Access:https://cab.unime.it/journals/index.php/IMAGO/article/view/3215
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Summary:The World Pandemic: an Impossible Storytelling?  Since 2020 the pandemic has been affecting the world population, bringing with it a proliferation of widely medialized images, symbols and myths. Has this collective catastrophe, which has upset the social and economic life of many countries, been accompanied by a coherent, stable, identifiable imaginary capable of producing meaning in events? Has the pandemic not been marked by the impossibility of a great narrative, by disturbing images, induced by contradictory injunctions and obsessive forms of anxious dystopias? Will covid19 not be contemporary with a perturbed, perverted, deficient imaginary (especially in France?)
ISSN:2281-8138