TY - JOUR
T1 - Accommodating Ourselves to Death
T2 - COVID and the Threat of Technological Solutions to Human Crises
AU - Gertz, Nolen
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
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PY - 2022
Y1 - 2022
N2 - COVID-19 has created new opportunities for tech companies to supply the world with technological solutions intended to help individuals, communities, and nations maintain normalcy in the midst of disease, death, and destruction. Technologies such as virtual meeting software, coronavirus monitoring apps, and air filtration systems raise the question of whether our technological resiliency is not only helping us to maintain life as it was before, but also preventing us from asking whether we should maintain life as it was before. By comparing Sartre's analysis of what it was like to live during the Nazi occupation of Paris to current attempts to live during the pandemic, this article investigates how the technological solutions that maintain ordinary life in the midst of catastrophe should lead us to question the catastrophic nature of what we take to be ordinary life.
AB - COVID-19 has created new opportunities for tech companies to supply the world with technological solutions intended to help individuals, communities, and nations maintain normalcy in the midst of disease, death, and destruction. Technologies such as virtual meeting software, coronavirus monitoring apps, and air filtration systems raise the question of whether our technological resiliency is not only helping us to maintain life as it was before, but also preventing us from asking whether we should maintain life as it was before. By comparing Sartre's analysis of what it was like to live during the Nazi occupation of Paris to current attempts to live during the pandemic, this article investigates how the technological solutions that maintain ordinary life in the midst of catastrophe should lead us to question the catastrophic nature of what we take to be ordinary life.
KW - COVID-19
KW - Jean-Paul Sartre
KW - pandemic
KW - technological resiliency
KW - 2023 OA procedure
U2 - 10.5840/techne202248154
DO - 10.5840/techne202248154
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85133598162
SN - 1091-8264
VL - 26
SP - 172
EP - 180
JO - Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology
JF - Techné: Research in Philosophy and Technology
IS - 1
ER -