An Autobiography towards one Necessary Route towards a New New Left

Tijdens de corona-crisis hebben veel naties hun grenzen gebarricadeerd. Velen van hen, vooral in Europa, hebben dit met haast moeten doen. In dit artikel analyseert auteur Eef Veldkamp de esthetiek van deze haastige ontwerpen.

The virus has shown that under the globalised real abstractions of capitalism, our imagination already fails to deliver us with a correct image of reality. In order to depict what Corona means, we need to think through the term "sick society".

There are two standard ways of conceiving an unfair argument. Either by presenting oneself as the sole representative of the true, this is as a modern expertocrat; or by staging oneself as the harbinger of the good, this is as a postmodern inquisitor.