NEW CHALLENGES OF THE PANDEMIC MEGA-CRISIS AND THE METAMORPHOSES OF THE IMMEDIATE PRESENT

• Main Author: Elena PRUS
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Academy of Sciences of Moldova 2020-10-01
• Series: Akademos: Revista de Ştiinţă, Inovare, Cultură şi Artă
• Subjects: coronavirus; pandemic; systemic crisis; culture as vaccine; new humanity
• Online Access: http://akademos.asm.md/files/69-73.pdf

The coronavirus pandemic made the humanity to face the unknown, the unpredictable, it changed the world order, generating a period confirming the theory of contemporaneity as liquid and unsecure society (Bauman, Morin, Plesu). The virus-chameleon has generated a mega-crisis: crisis of structure (institutional), crisis of systems (medical-sanitary, financial-economic, psychological communicational, and others), crisis of cycles etc., which revealed specific issues in different spheres and the need to reconceptualize the guidelines and the priorities. COVID-19, a coded assault, shows today how fragile is the humanity. The scope of entering a new stage of the world society needs the creative adaptation of the academic communities to the imminent changes of the fields. The science represents the space to advance hypotheses/ to make proposals/to search and to find solutions in this complicated situation. During the spasmodic times of pandemic, the science, the culture and the art became a sui-generis vaccine fighting against fear and death, as they replace the immortality. Therefore, the science and the culture help us to produce positivity, creativity and immunity.