The Trouble House: Contagious Kinships and Promiscuous/Respons habilities.

An An-economic Reading on the Pandemic.

Abstract

This paper aims to analyze the paradoxical and complex situation in which the experience of a zoonotic disease, which confronted us with a bitter reminder of our inextricable and inseparable interdependence with other distant, different and interconnected ways of living, has also led to the re -production of an affective economy centered on fear and immunity, and articulated around a “familiaristic” and “human, all too human” sense of the responsibility that comes in with living and dying with others. Within the perspective of the “affective turn”, this text will focus on how affective policies intertwine with perceptual frameworks, while being at the same time active factors in the ways in which we build our support networks and collective responsibilities.