From Coronacrisis to Ebony Spring: Cultivating and Creolizing Ubuntu in the Dialectic of Eros and Thanatos
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Crise covarde; ubuntu; afro-caribenha; modernidade; humanismo negro. Covid crisis; ubuntu; Afro-Caribbean; modernity; black humanism. Coronacrisis; Ubuntu; Afrocaribe; Modernidad; Humanismo negro.

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Lao Montes, A. (2022). From Coronacrisis to Ebony Spring: Cultivating and Creolizing Ubuntu in the Dialectic of Eros and Thanatos. Resistances. Journal of the Philosophy of History, 3(5), e21089. https://doi.org/10.46652/resistances.v3i5.89

Abstract

The context of the pandemic of Covid-19 has demanded a deep reflection about the present time in which we live. One of the proposals is to assume this moment as a “Coronacrisis” understood as a category to signify how the pandemic aggravates the multifaceted crisis of the Western capitalist civilization in its neoliberal era. This proposal has unmasked the dialectic of death and life that is positioned in the center of the fight against negritude. The consequences of the pandemic were quickly reflected upon from the codes of whiteness. In this article, we suggest approaching this phenomenon from the zone of the nonbeing with African heritage from our continent. Being situated in this moment of the enunciation not only opens the opportunity for a better understanding of what we have lived in these times until now but also allows us to look for the ways out of this crisis.

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