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Tempo de Desaceleração, Será Tempo de Mudança? Que Mundo Teremos Após a Pandemia do COVID-19?
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Este tempo que desacelerou abruptamente nas nossas vidas confinadas em fase aguda de pandemia poderá ser o tempo de incubação de mudanças, mas também de aceleração da entrada
numa nova fase do sistema capitalista mundial. Perigos e oportunidades que vivemos numa
fase paradoxal da história, a ser vivida com incerteza constante da ciência e da política, com
horizontes de sentido muito curtos, aumentam a ansiedade e o medo. Ao mesmo tempo, várias
opções se tornaram claras e quase obrigatórias. Como se todos, ou quase todos, tivéssemos
a certeza que tínhamos de parar, conter, mudar, deixar de fazer uma variedade de coisas que
nunca tínhamos pensado nelas. Outras deixaram de fazer sentido e percebemos que o sistema
em que vivemos é extramente frágil e pouco nos protege. Ao mesmo tempo que o poder político ganha uma nova centralidade, ao nos colocar quase todos em confinamento social e a paralisar quase completamente a economia. Estamos num tempo de aparente desordem, enorme
incerteza e risco que aqui importa interrogar e perceber seus sentidos, de forma a antecipar os
seus efeitos e consequências, mas também a projetar as mudanças sociais que podem construir
um mundo melhor e mais justo.
ABSTRACT: This period that has abruptly slowed down our confined lives during the acute phase of the pandemic could be an incubation period for change, and it could also accelerate our transition into a new phase of the world capitalist system. The dangers and opportunities that we are living during a paradoxical phase of history increase anxiety and fear, which is being experienced with the constant uncertainty of science and politics with horizons of meaning that are insufficient. At the same time, various options have become clear and almost compulsory. It’s as if all of us, or almost all of us, had the certainty that we had to stop, contain, change, or stop doing a variety of things that we had never taken into consideration. Others stopped making sense and we understand that the system in which we live is extremely fragile and offers little protection. Nonetheless, political power gains a new centrality, by placing almost all of us in social confinement and paralyzing the economy to its almost entirety. We are in a time of apparent disorder, great uncertainty and risk and it becomes important for us here to question and understand these meanings in order to anticipate the effects and consequences, but also to project the social changes that may build a better and more equitable world.
ABSTRACT: This period that has abruptly slowed down our confined lives during the acute phase of the pandemic could be an incubation period for change, and it could also accelerate our transition into a new phase of the world capitalist system. The dangers and opportunities that we are living during a paradoxical phase of history increase anxiety and fear, which is being experienced with the constant uncertainty of science and politics with horizons of meaning that are insufficient. At the same time, various options have become clear and almost compulsory. It’s as if all of us, or almost all of us, had the certainty that we had to stop, contain, change, or stop doing a variety of things that we had never taken into consideration. Others stopped making sense and we understand that the system in which we live is extremely fragile and offers little protection. Nonetheless, political power gains a new centrality, by placing almost all of us in social confinement and paralyzing the economy to its almost entirety. We are in a time of apparent disorder, great uncertainty and risk and it becomes important for us here to question and understand these meanings in order to anticipate the effects and consequences, but also to project the social changes that may build a better and more equitable world.
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Capitalismo COVID-19 Pandemia Sociedade Capitalism Pandemic Society
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Fontes, P. V. (2020). Tempo de Desaceleração, Será Tempo de Mudança? Que Mundo Teremos Após a Pandemia do COVID-19?. “Political Observer - Revista Portuguesa de Ciência Política”, 14, 127-140. eISSN 2184-2078. DOI: 10.33167/2184-2078.rpcp2020.14/pp.127-140.
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ISCSP-ULisboa/ Political Observatory