What does philosophy have to say about the pandemic?

27 Oct 2022

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Since the beginning of 2020, great contemporary philosophers have written about the pandemic. They have mobilised their concepts to understand what caused the pandemic and what its effects would be worldwide. They have oscillated between pessimism and optimism as they attempted to imagine the future that awaits us. But what does this say about our places, such as Portugal and Brazil, and about our present?

This is the question that João Pedro Cachopo, author of "A torção dos sentidos: pandemia e remediação digital" (Documenta), and Pedro Duarte, author of "A pandemia e o exílio do mundo" (Bazar do Tempo), will discuss: what does philosophy have to say about the pandemic? The meeting, which is organised by Mombak with the support of the Kees Eijrond Foundation, takes place on 27 October, at 6:30 pm.   

João Pedro Cachopo is a musicologist and philosopher. He teaches at the Faculty of Social and Human Sciences of the NOVA University Lisbon, where he is a member of the Centre for the Study of the Sociology and Aesthetics of Music, and is currently the coordinator of the Critical Theory and Communication Group. He was a Visiting Scholar at Durham University (2012) and Columbia University in the City of New York (2015). Between 2017 and 2019, he was a Marie Skłodowska-Curie Fellow at the University of Chicago. He is the author of "A Torção dos Sentidos: Pandemia e Remediação Digital" (Documenta, 2020; Elefante, 2021) and "Verdade e Enigma: Ensaio sobre o pensamento estético de Adorno" (Vendaval, 2013), which received the PEN Club Português First Work Award in 2014. He co-edited "Rancière and Music" (Edinburgh University Press, 2020), "Estética e Política entre as Artes" (Edições 70, 2017) and "Pensamento Crítico Contemporâneo" (Edições 70, 2014).  

Pedro Duarte is a Professor of Philosophy at PUC-Rio and a Young Scientist of Our State fellow at Faperj. Co-curator, along with writer Tatiana Salem Levy, of the Art, Autonomy and Politics section of Revista Pessoa. Coordinator of the Art, Autonomy and Politics Project at Capes PrInt. During his postdoctoral studies, he held the Fulbright Chair in Brazilian Studies at Emory University (USA, 2020). He was a Visiting Professor at Södertörn University (Sweden) and Visiting Scholar at Brown University (USA, 2004/2006). He is the author of, among others, the books "O ensaio como narrativa" (Oca, 2021); “A pandemia e o exílio do mundo” (Bazar do Tempo, 2020), “Tropicália” (Cobogó, 2018), “A palavra modernista” (Leya, 2014) and "Estio do Tempo: Romantismo e estética moderna" (Zahar, 2011). Co-author, screenwriter and curator of the TV series “Alegorias do Brasil”, alongside director Murilo Salles (Canal Curta!, 2018).    

 

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What does philosophy have to say about the pandemic?
27 October 2022, at 6:30 pm
Rua de Santa Catarina 1, Lisbon