Una (dis)società ‘virata’? Tra socio-pandemia e ‘net-pandemia’

Abstract

The Covid-19 pandemic is also a social pandemic, which presents itself as a “net-pandemic” in the age of the digital revolution. Starting from Schelling’s philosophical reflections on myth, and after a brief critical analysis of authors such as Badiou, Žižek, Nancy, Petrosino, Lévy and Byung-Chul Han, who discussed the topic, I attempt to explain, primarily, the factors of the legal-political crisis of sovereignty caused by the health crisis, and, secondly, the philosophical-political contents expressed by Foucauldian theory of the government of populations. This analysis shows that human society no longer identifies with the coordinates that related the individual and the collective over the past two centuries: with regard to a pervasive “virological emergency”, a system of mandatory norms is overcome by a regime of “normalisation” for reasons of immune security.