COVID‐19 and spatio‐temporal disjuncture in the experience of danger

Anthropologist Marc Abélès (2006) argues that the main consequence of globalisation is that we will never again be safe from a threatening elsewhere. In global society, the experience of danger occurs in terms of omnipresence and immediacy. A European‐educated Egyptian terrorist crashes a plane in Manhattan. A mortgage crisis in the USA destroys jobs in Seville. A virus that appeared in Wuhan soon provokes declarations of alarm by the State in half of Europe. The COVID‐19 crisis also reflects a disjuncture of the spatio‐temporal coordinates that structured the danger long ago.