Questo articolo presenta un breve esercizio di ermeneutica pandemica, ovvero un'interpretazione del fenomeno pandemico a partire dalla “questione della tecnica”, intesa come alternativa alla sua interpretazione biopolitico-immunologica proposta da Roberto Esposito. I principali risultati di questa ermeneutica tecno-centrica sono: 1) sul piano ontologico, la peculiarità della pandemia come fenomeno, cioè il suo emergere come “prova tecnica di tecnocosmo”; 2) sul piano politico, il possibile avvento di un paradigma zoopolitico, ovvero di un tecno-leviatano post-democratico la cui concreta incarnazione è offerta dalla gestione cinese dell'emergenza pandemica; 3) sul piano etico, si assiste all'emergere della cosiddetta “legge di Gabor” come un nuovo imperativo categorico: “ciò che può essere fatto, deve essere fatto”, cioè il ‘tecnologicamente possibile’ si trasforma nel ‘moralmente obbligatorio’. Sulla scorta di tali premesse, la capacità umana di agire e di essere responsabile delle proprie azioni rischia di venire seriamente compromessa.
This paper presents a brief exercise in pandemic hermeneutics, that is, an interpretation of the pandemic phenomenon from the “question concerning technology” understood as an alternative to its biopolitical-immunological interpretation proposed by Roberto Esposito. The main outcomes of this techno-centered hermeneutic are: 1) on the ontological level, the peculiarity of the pandemic as a phenomenon, that is, its emergence as a “technical test of technocosm”; 2) on the political level, the possible advent of a zoopolitical paradigm, that is, a post-democratic techno-leviathan embodied by China’s management of the pandemic emergency; 3) on the ethical level, we can see the “Gabor’s law” as a new categorical imperative: “what can be made, must be made”, that is, the “technologically possible” turns into the “morally mandatory”. As a result, human capability both to act and to be accountable for one’s actions risks to be compromised.
Il tecnocosmo zoopolitico. Per un’ermeneutica del fenomeno pandemico
Agostino Cera
2024
Abstract
This paper presents a brief exercise in pandemic hermeneutics, that is, an interpretation of the pandemic phenomenon from the “question concerning technology” understood as an alternative to its biopolitical-immunological interpretation proposed by Roberto Esposito. The main outcomes of this techno-centered hermeneutic are: 1) on the ontological level, the peculiarity of the pandemic as a phenomenon, that is, its emergence as a “technical test of technocosm”; 2) on the political level, the possible advent of a zoopolitical paradigm, that is, a post-democratic techno-leviathan embodied by China’s management of the pandemic emergency; 3) on the ethical level, we can see the “Gabor’s law” as a new categorical imperative: “what can be made, must be made”, that is, the “technologically possible” turns into the “morally mandatory”. As a result, human capability both to act and to be accountable for one’s actions risks to be compromised.I documenti in SFERA sono protetti da copyright e tutti i diritti sono riservati, salvo diversa indicazione.
