“We” Are In This Together, But We Are Not One and the Same (2024)

Abstract

The COVID-19 pandemic is a man-made disaster, caused by undue interference in the ecological balance and the lives of multiple species. Paradoxically, the contagion has resulted in increased use of technology and digital mediation, as well as enhanced hopes for vaccines and biomedical solutions. It has thereby intensified humans’ reliance on the very high-tech economy of cognitive capitalism that caused the problems in the first place. This combination of ambivalent elements in relation to the Fourth Industrial revolution and the Sixth Extinction is the trademark of the posthuman condition. This essay explores this condition further, offering both critical and affirmative propositions for moving forward.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)465-469
JournalJournal of Bioethical Inquiry
Volume17
Issue number4
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Dec 2020

Keywords

  • COVID-19
  • Anthropocene
  • Posthumanism
  • Postcolonialism
  • Feminism
  • Intersectionality
  • Indigenous theories

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    Braidotti, R. (2020). “We” Are In This Together, But We Are Not One and the Same. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry, 17(4), 465-469. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11673-020-10017-8

    Braidotti, R. / “We” Are In This Together, But We Are Not One and the Same. In: Journal of Bioethical Inquiry. 2020 ; Vol. 17, No. 4. pp. 465-469.

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    Braidotti R. “We” Are In This Together, But We Are Not One and the Same. Journal of Bioethical Inquiry. 2020 Dec;17(4):465-469. doi: 10.1007/s11673-020-10017-8

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