Artículo de Rita Segato. Han circulado en estos días un número significativo de textos, muchos de ellos escritos por autores influyentes. Ellos intentan dar cuenta de dos aspectos distintos de la pandemia que nos aflige. Un grupo hace apuestas a lo que puede haber sido el origen del virus, dividiéndose entre aquéllas que adhieren a la teoría del complot y las otras que, sin necesariamente saberlo, dan continuidad a lo que ya Marx llamaba “ruptura metabólica” o desequilibrio de la relación entre los seres humanos con la naturaleza. Leer más.

An article by LUCÍA CAVALLERO AND VERÓNICA GAGO \\ TRANSLATED BY LIZ MASON-DEESE. It is impossible to trivialize the images of pain that have been circulating for weeks. Across the planet, the virus has accelerated our comprehension of neoliberalism’s deadly mechanisms, the operation of its power over bodies. We could say that there is nothing new about this. Neoliberalism has shown that it can coexist perfectly with death machines, such as those at work in refugee camps and at borders, to name the most brutal examples. But now the virus, which does not discriminate by class or passport, has shown neoliberal life to be a spectacle that we watch online, accompanied by a necropolitical body count rising in real time. There are two arguments that do not convince us: a quick death certificate for capitalism and, as a counterpoint, the insistence that the pandemic confirms capitalism’s totalitarian control over life. Read more.