'Survival' as a Societal Value: Biopolitics in Times of Corona
2020, International Journal of Research and Analytical Reviews (IJRAR)
The outbreak of the novel corona virus, namely COVID-19, and its ensuing haunting is not simply pushing us towards a world with lesser population but towards a world with renewed ideologies, novel population management apparatuses and reinvigorated enemy lenses. In other words, COVID-19 is not merely claiming lives; its emergence is reshaping the lives of the ones that it has spared and when the war against it shall end, in its wake, humanity could very well be markedly more divorced and disassociated from one another from prior to its outbreak. Panic has gripped most of the world as countries have shut down their nations and borders. In the absence of a vaccine and any guaranteed treatment, the world has easily warmed up to the idea of abandoning most of the cherished societal (or liberal) values - such as those of liberty or free movement and the like – in order to uphold just the value of ‘survival’.
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