Lockdown

Summary

Dominique Pagani talks about lockdown from March 2020 onward, when the sessions of "Les Attelé(e)s de la Confinitude" begin. He first describes it as an unprecedented situation of indefinite length, in which people can reach each other only through a screen1. He points out that people cope with it more or less well depending on their housing, income and working conditions2. He also says that lockdown is not the burning issue of the day, and that people experience it differently depending on where they stand on the social ladder. In July 2020, he gives the term a wider scope: lockdown becomes a metonymy for the era and something that reveals it, speeding up people's awareness3. He then takes the notion beyond the situation of spring 2020. In his view, people born in the 1990s were "born locked down": in terms of reason and feeling, and also aesthetically and politically4.

1. 1#0 Harnessed to confinitude26 Mar 2020 · 0:30
2. 2#0 Harnessed to confinitude26 Mar 2020 · 9:14
3. 3#15 Return to the logics of the subject23 Jul 2020 · 3:35
4. 4#15 Return to the logics of the subject23 Jul 2020 · 9:31

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