ABSTRACT

Today satellites make the reader the “watchers from the sky” of the mass graves wherever the speed of Covid-19 related deaths has outstripped the speed of medical and funerary care. It is its proliferation within, for instance, the human animal under certain circumstances that results in an epidemic. In an epidemic, it is a question of the interacting relative speeds, say of the sprayed and deposited viral droplets and global contact and transport systems of humans. The philosophical fragment is a mobile thinkable element, and Heidegger had handled it as such. Reading Gandhi is the most instructive for the reader to recognize the false problem of crowd and isolation. Agamben's biopolitics seeks this open crowd as the norm of human life. It is, to retranslate the Anaximander fragment, along the lines of indestinacy; for they must exchange arrangements and be re-articulated with one other, coming over stasis.