GASCA-SALAS, Jorge. The negation of the pandemic city. Inhabit, virtualize, resist daily life. []. , 32, 2, pp.77-88.   06--2022. ISSN 0124-7913.  https://doi.org/10.15446/bitacora.v32n2.99835.

The pandemic caused by SARS-CoV-2 has led to the closure of the city, its negation. Its global dimension has generated phenomena such as mass confinement, social distancing, the denial-closure of the city, the city as danger, the change of scale from the collective habitat to the domestic habitat, the partial halt of economic activities conditioning virtualization and life as a whole. Also, it transformes the house in the axis of the habitat of absolute daily life and its contemplation of the world as an image.

The object of this research article is to capture these phenomena that accompany the study of the city under pandemic conditions. As a methodological resource, the presence of opposing elements in dynamic relation is established in the form of dialectical pairs, such as the collective subject and individual subject and the citified and the domestic, boosting the habitat scale. The dialectical analysis of the health crisis results, among others, in the adaptation and refunctionalization of the subject to the prevailing economic system slowed, accelerated the virtualization of daily life, subsuming it to its domain. The result is the speed up the emergence of a new type of man: homo videns videns.

: city; pandemic; daily life; habitat; virtual.

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