CRACKS IN THE COSMODICY: CORONAVIRUS, LISBON, AND THE SUBLIME AS SEEN FROM SARAJEVO
CRACKS IN THE COSMODICY: CORONAVIRUS, LISBON, AND THE SUBLIME AS SEEN FROM SARAJEVO

Summary/Abstract: Plague is nothing new to human history. What is new is the simultaneous expectation of immunity and the panicky realization that this expectation is dangerously unfounded in anything but our hubris. The hubris lies is in our fundamental assumption that absolute control, rather than damage limitation, remains not merely possible but our best course, even a form of categorical imperative, because it is the quintessence of our autonomy. It coexists with the suspicion that this autonomy is an illusion and that the plague is not merely a blow from outside, but the expression of an ultimately heteronomous position – the reality that we are subject to external determination, and that this determination may actually be by nothing, by chance, and so by chaos, that the principle of our existence is a form of crumbling towards the entropy-inducing Abyss.

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