The pandemic, a tear in the social bond. Networking, an answer

Abstract

The pandemic is causing a great impact on our ways to inhabit the world; on the social bond; on our bodies, them being not just mere living organisms, but rather the place where our feelings take place and manifest themselves. In fact, the most real part of what is going on is not the virus itself but its effects on subjectivity and, in turn, on the discomfort of a society which has woken up with its own trauma from the dream that it was possible to live denying that life is only contingent. Finding responses aimed at strengthening the social bond and the different types of professional intervention is an ethical decision. Networking is one of them.

In light of the compulsive repetition, the loneliness, the uncertainty, and the severe discomforts brought by these times, collaborative work at the public level and networking at the professional level are both possible responses. We have witnessed that this experience (of conversation, joint responsibility, commitment to precise and dignified individuality, deconstruction of knowledge) gives room to a kind of collaboration opposed to voluntary servitude and any sort of scrapping by.

Networking is framed within a logic of social bonding: the question-answer logic. A logic who does not think of human issues as problems but as questions. Questions which, as is known from the psychoanalysis, are integral part of any learning process, of any subjective rectification, of any desire to live.