CONSECUENCIAS DE UNA CRISIS SANITARIA. BOTIQUÍN DE IDEAS PARA COMPRENDER EL CORONAVIRUS Y SU TECNO-PANDEMIA INFORMACIONAL.

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Title:	CONSECUENCIAS DE UNA CRISIS SANITARIA. BOTIQUÍN DE IDEAS PARA COMPRENDER EL CORONAVIRUS Y SU TECNO-PANDEMIA INFORMACIONAL.
Alternate Title:	Consequences of a Health Crisis. Ideas Kit for the Understanding of the Coronavirus and its Informational Techno-Pandemic.
Authors:	Antonio Marín-Casanova, José¹ jamarin@us.es
Source:	Revista de Comunicación y Salud. 2020, Vol. 10 Issue 2, p63-80. 18p.
Abstract (English):	The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which causes COVID-19 disease, has generated an unprecedented health crisis, the first universal pandemic in history. This phenomenon is gradually being explained by science. But it is not enough to explain it, it is also necessary to understand it. The main objective pursued here is, from the methodological perspective of philosophical Hermeneutics, the understanding of the pandemic crisis. The metamorphosis that this crisis is producing in the notions of "reality" and "subjectivity" and its repercussion on communication is analyzed. There are two main vectors that lead to the results of this reflection: 1) the pandemic and the new normality make the exception the rule; 2) this has been possible because what was initially a biological mutation has become a series of conflicting disruptive innovations, which governments are controlling through technopolitical measures of social discipline such as domestic confinement. Thus, the coronavirus mutates into an information technovirus that is transmitted through the media and social networks, infecting human brains and provoking new ways of thinking, acting and living. An info-pandemic, whose mental damage is expected to exceed the organic damage. It can then be concluded that it is not the viral health crisis what is transforming the normality of life on the street, but the techno-political actions taken to confront it, even though the blame goes to the previously techno-personalized coronavirus. We will surely overcome the pandemic, but perhaps at the cost of the info-pandemic having overcome us once and for all. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
Abstract (Spanish):	El coronavirus SARS-CoV-2, causante de la enfermedad COVID-19, ha generado una crisis sanitaria sin precedentes, la primera pandemia universal de la historia. Este fenómeno poco a poco está siendo explicado por la Ciencia. Pero no basta con explicar, también es preciso comprender. El objetivo principal perseguido aquí, desde la perspectiva metodológica de la Hermenéutica filosófica, es la comprensión de la crisis pandémica. Se analiza la metamorfosis que esta crisis está produciendo en las nociones de "realidad" y "subjetividad" y su repercusión en la Comunicación. Dos son los vectores destacados que vehiculan los resultados de esta reflexión: 1) la pandemia y la nueva normalidad hacen de la excepción la regla; 2) ello ha sido posible porque lo que inicialmente fue una mutación biológica se ha convertido en serie de conflictivas innovaciones disruptivas, que los gobiernos están controlando mediante medidas tecnopolíticas de disciplina social como el confinamiento doméstico. Así el coronavirus muta en tecno-virus informacional que se trasmite a través de los mass media y las redes sociales, infectando los cerebros humanos y provocando nuevos modos de pensar, actuar y vivir. A la pandemia se le solapa una infopandemia, cuyos daños mentales previsiblemente superarán los orgánicos. Se concluye entonces que no es la crisis sanitaria vírica la que está transformando la normalidad de la vida en la calle, sino las acciones tecno-políticas tomadas para afrontarla, aun cuando el reproche se lo lleve un coronavirus previamente tecno-personificado. Seguramente superaremos la pandemia, pero a costa quizá de que la info-pandemia definitivamente nos haya superado. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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Abstract:	The SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus, which causes COVID-19 disease, has generated an unprecedented health crisis, the first universal pandemic in history. This phenomenon is gradually being explained by science. But it is not enough to explain it, it is also necessary to understand it. The main objective pursued here is, from the methodological perspective of philosophical Hermeneutics, the understanding of the pandemic crisis. The metamorphosis that this crisis is producing in the notions of "reality" and "subjectivity" and its repercussion on communication is analyzed. There are two main vectors that lead to the results of this reflection: 1) the pandemic and the new normality make the exception the rule; 2) this has been possible because what was initially a biological mutation has become a series of conflicting disruptive innovations, which governments are controlling through technopolitical measures of social discipline such as domestic confinement. Thus, the coronavirus mutates into an information technovirus that is transmitted through the media and social networks, infecting human brains and provoking new ways of thinking, acting and living. An info-pandemic, whose mental damage is expected to exceed the organic damage. It can then be concluded that it is not the viral health crisis what is transforming the normality of life on the street, but the techno-political actions taken to confront it, even though the blame goes to the previously techno-personalized coronavirus. We will surely overcome the pandemic, but perhaps at the cost of the info-pandemic having overcome us once and for all. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
ISSN:	21745323
DOI:	10.35669/rcys.2020.10(2).63-80