Unlikely match: Walter Benjamin and Marshall Mcluhan. Pandemic, global village and perceptual shock

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DOI:

https://doi.org/10.5377/raices.v5i9.11987

Keywords:

quarantine, pandemic, narcosis, shock, aesthetics, anesthetic

Abstract

The quarantine worldwide paralyzed the circulation of merchandise, communication and viruses, collapsing the global market that virally circulates merchandise, communication and viruses like never before in its history. Two authors of unsuspected parallelism (Walter Benjamin and Marshall McLuhan) are the triggers of this reflection about human subjection to the constant flow of information and its delayed assimilation, with all that this overinformation impacts in terms of suffering.

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Author Biography

Joaquín Cardoso, Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), Argentina.

Es profesor de Comunicación en la Facultad de Ciencias Sociales de la Universidad de Buenos Aires (UBA), y de Historia Sociocultural del Arte en la Universidad Nacional del Arte (UNA) en Argentina. Ha escrito numerosos artículos vinculados con la técnica, la comunicación y la cultura en diferentes sitios y revistas académicas argentinas y de Latinoamérica.

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Published

2021-07-12

How to Cite

Cardoso, J. (2021). Unlikely match: Walter Benjamin and Marshall Mcluhan. Pandemic, global village and perceptual shock. Raíces: Journal of Social Sciences and Politics, 5(9), 139–146. https://doi.org/10.5377/raices.v5i9.11987

Issue

Año 5, Núm. 9 (2021)

Section

Antropología de la Salud

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