Journal
JOURNAL OF BIOETHICAL INQUIRY
Volume 17, Issue 4, Pages 465-469Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11673-020-10017-8
Keywords
COVID-19; Anthropocene; Posthumanism; Postcolonialism; Feminism; Intersectionality; Indigenous theories
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The COVID-19 pandemic is a man-made disaster, caused by undue interference in the ecological balance and the lives of multiple species. Paradoxically, the contagion has resulted in increased use of technology and digital mediation, as well as enhanced hopes for vaccines and biomedical solutions. It has thereby intensified humans' reliance on the very high-tech economy of cognitive capitalism that caused the problems in the first place. This combination of ambivalent elements in relation to the Fourth Industrial revolution and the Sixth Extinction is the trademark of the posthuman condition. This essay explores this condition further, offering both critical and affirmative propositions for moving forward.
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