University and pandemic
Freddy Alvarez1
In his blog “Thinking from the South”, Freddy Álvarez offers his analysis on what he himself defines as “A contribution to the development of education”.
In this context, on August 8, 2020, he published a podcast on “University and Pandemic in the Face of CRES 2018” where he states: “A new beginning implies profaning the inevitable. The mask of the inevitable belongs to capitalism; Western development, education in mathematics and English; a uniform university model for the planet; the globalization of the market and its aesthetic repeated in our modern baroque; migrants dying in the boats that sail the Mediterranean, in Calais, Lampedusa, Lesbos, on the borders of the US-Mexico, Spain-Melilla, Israel-Palestine, Turkey-Greece-Syria; the scandalous inequality and poverty in the world; the intoxicated acceleration; artificial intelligence as the opportunity for new subjectivities. The Covid-19 virus has achieved the profanation of the inevitable, placing us all in the realm of the possible. The Italian philosopher Bifo Berardi (2020) writes the following: What political will has failed to achieve, the mutagenic power of the virus might. But that force must prepare by imagining what is possible, now that the unpredictable has torn apart the fabric of the inevitable.
1- Former rector of UNAE in Ecuador and researcher linked to CLACSO
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