From the Pandemic to Utopia : The Future Begins Now Paperback / softback
by Boaventura De Sousa Santos
Part of the Epistemologies of the South series
Paperback / softback
Description
The coronavirus pandemic forces us to rethink our contemporaneity.
It has brought to the surface dimensions of human fragility that partially contradict the euphoria and human hubris of the fourth industrial revolution (artificial intelligence).
It has also aggravated the social inequality and racial discrimination that characterize our societies.
The book argues that the virus, rather than an enemy, must be viewed as a pedagogue.
It is trying to teach us that the deep causes of the pandemic lie in our dominant mode of production and consumption.
The systemic overload of natural resources creates a metabolic rift between society and nature that destabilizes the habitat of wild animals and the vital cycles of natural regeneration whereby pandemics become an increasingly recurrent phenomenon.
In trying to take seriously this lesson the book proposes a paradigmatic shift from the current civilizatory model to a new one guided by a more equitable relationship between nature and society and the priority of life, both human and non-human.
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:12/04/2023
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- ISBN:9781032355573
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Information
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Less than 10 available - usually despatched within 24 hours
- Format:Paperback / softback
- Pages:248 pages
- Publisher:Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication Date:12/04/2023
- Category:
- ISBN:9781032355573
