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Opening up the Debate on the Aging SocietyOld People, Coronavirus and the Precarious Culture of Precariousness

Opening up the Debate on the Aging Society: Old People, Coronavirus and the Precarious Culture of... [This chapter develops how the coronavirus pandemic has impacted on the situation of old people, who have notoriously been forced to confine and isolate themselves, from what seems to be a totalitarian version of the sanitary-hygienist discourse. From here it is glimpsed that the coronavirus extends beyond its biological significance and is related to a political, social, cultural framework, which tends to the predominance of hard references and intolerance, as much as to the chronification of scarcity, annulment of the capacity to think rationally, and the renewal of sacral expiatory acts around sacrifice, as a magical and paranoid way of restoring supposedly homeostatic states that are idealized and sought to be restored.] http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png

Opening up the Debate on the Aging SocietyOld People, Coronavirus and the Precarious Culture of Precariousness

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Springer International Publishing
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© The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s), under exclusive license to Springer Nature Switzerland AG 2022
ISBN
978-3-031-11449-6
Pages
73 –85
DOI
10.1007/978-3-031-11450-2_7
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[This chapter develops how the coronavirus pandemic has impacted on the situation of old people, who have notoriously been forced to confine and isolate themselves, from what seems to be a totalitarian version of the sanitary-hygienist discourse. From here it is glimpsed that the coronavirus extends beyond its biological significance and is related to a political, social, cultural framework, which tends to the predominance of hard references and intolerance, as much as to the chronification of scarcity, annulment of the capacity to think rationally, and the renewal of sacral expiatory acts around sacrifice, as a magical and paranoid way of restoring supposedly homeostatic states that are idealized and sought to be restored.]

Published: Aug 4, 2022

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