The walls of air. Times and representations of the pandemic

Abstract

This essay proposes to address the analysis of political and economic behavior in the face of the pandemic in three moments. The first of them is distinguished by that apparent suspended time of the bodies, although the capital borders on the sacrifice of millions of workers in the world and, in particular, in regions like Nuestra América; the second cycle of the pandemic is characterized as open-air purgatory, the stage of contagion and large-scale deaths; the third is that of vaccination and a geopolitical struggle for its commercialization; it is perhaps the moment in which we have the greatest awareness of the tragic impact of the pandemic and in which our corporality demands to be represented as part of the ecosystems. In addition, the notions of individualism and community are also axles of the analysis that the article proposes.