[Xmca-l] Re: Covid as World Perezhivanie?

[Andy Blunden]

Greg, the word is polysemic, as Mike said, but I agree with 
Michael that /perezhivaniya/ are essentially collective 
experiences. As I say in the article, that COVID will be 
experienced differently in different countries, by different 
classes and social groups is an important part of this 
process. It does not detract it from its being a single 
experience.

Huw, a "world subject" is emergent at this moment. It is 
implicit or "in-itself" but I look forward to the appearance 
of such a world subject, though who know how long and 
through what traumas we will pass before it is an actuality. 
Like WW2, the COVID pandemic part of its birth process.

  * https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ethicalpolitics.org/seminars/perezhivanie.htm__;!!Mih3wA!S8ALk6GlG2xHhKD5PZffsZwZSDgRm3dCjkxcBsYpsG0QakxKLngh6lBP1DDCY0iFFi2kTw$ ,
    <https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ethicalpolitics.org/seminars/perezhivanie.htm__;!!Mih3wA!S8ALk6GlG2xHhKD5PZffsZwZSDgRm3dCjkxcBsYpsG0QakxKLngh6lBP1DDCY0iFFi2kTw$ >
    Notes, links, excerpts, 2009
  * https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ethicalpolitics.org/ablunden/pdfs/Blunden_article*response.pdf__;Kw!!Mih3wA!S8ALk6GlG2xHhKD5PZffsZwZSDgRm3dCjkxcBsYpsG0QakxKLngh6lBP1DDCY0jGnjh6xA$ ,
    MCA article 2016
  * https://urldefense.com/v3/__https://www.ethicalpolitics.org/ablunden/pdfs/Coronavirus-pandemic.pdf__;!!Mih3wA!S8ALk6GlG2xHhKD5PZffsZwZSDgRm3dCjkxcBsYpsG0QakxKLngh6lBP1DDCY0iFrpl65A$ 

Andy


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On 25/04/2020 4:01 am, Greg Thompson wrote:
> I'm wondering about Andy's suggestion that covid-19 is a 
> (or maybe "is creating a"?) world perezhivanie. That seems 
> a really rich suggestion but I'm not sure how many of us 
> on the list really understand what he means by this.
>
> Andy tends to just tell me to go read more and so I'm 
> wondering if someone else might be willing to take a stab 
> at explaining what he might mean.
>
> Also, as a critical intervention, I am wondering whether 
> covid-19 is the "same" for everyone. We have folks in the 
> U.S. who think it is basically just a typical flu that has 
> been turned into a political tool to attack the current 
> president. Or does that not matter for perezhivanie?
>
> (and just to be clear, my question is not whether or not 
> this is true or right or beautiful to think this way; my 
> question is whether or not this is how people are actually 
> experiencing the world since I assume that this is what 
> perezhivanie is supposed to be "getting at". Or am I 
> misunderstanding perezhivanie?)
>
> So is there really a shared perezhivanie here?
> (Is The Problem of Age the place to look for answers?)
>
> But if no one wants to take this up (perhaps too much ink 
> has been spilt over perezhivanie?), that's fine too.
>
> Cheers,
> greg
>
>
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