La pandemia come opportunità del radicalmente nuovo? Sull'uso politico della nozione di catastrofe ai tempi dell'Antropocene

Moving from a definition of the idea of catastrophe, this article tries a conceptual definition of the coronavirus pandemic. Pandemic is a complex concept, which opens new perspectives about the nature of our way of life. The ecological crises, the transformation of the planet caused by mankind, and the social and economic conditions that apparently originated the latest pandemic, show how it is necessary to build a new imagination and above all a new way of acting, in order to build radically new forms of life.