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Zusatztext Speaking to the urgency of our times, this is a short, incisive book that manages to slow down. Cachopo’s analysis moves the critical literature on the pandemic along by highlighting how digital media reshapes the conditions of human imagination. Informationen zum Autor João Pedro Cachopo teaches Philosophy of Music at the New University of Lisbon, Portugal. His essays have appeared in journals such as New German Critique and The Opera Quarterly . Vorwort English language translation ( A Torção dos Sentidos: Pandemia e Remediação Digital ) that reframes the philosophical and political discussion of the pandemic in terms of the accelerated digital revolution. Zusammenfassung A refreshing approach to the dominance of technology in our contemporary lives, The Digital Pandemic , translated from Portuguese, poses fundamental questions about love, fear, connectedness, proximity, imagination and consciousness.Arguing that the pandemic has ushered in a civilizational digital shock, João Pedro Cachopo charts new channels of relatedness and communication between people through digital technologies for the foreseeable future. The transformation of human experience that began in 2020 creates a break in our sociality that Cachopo pinpoints through key themes of love, travel, study, community and art.In contrast to the growing philosophical literature on the pandemic, this bold theoretical work does not prophesy the fall of capitalism or the end of personal freedom and relationships. Instead, this book carefully investigates the advanced technology that is increasingly inextricable from our lives, using an alternative approach that avoids pessimism, while remaining alert to the risks and threats of the digital age. It opens up the possibility of fostering global solidarity and consciousness beyond physical borders in the 21st century. Inhaltsverzeichnis Prologue: The Pandemic Is Not the Event 1. The Role of Philosophy in Times of Uncertainty 2. Questions, Hypotheses, Suspicions 3. Topology of the Imagination 4. Apocalypse Remediated 5. The Disruption of the Senses Love Travel Study Community Art Epilogue: Our World After the Pandemic Index...