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Sin lugar a dudas, el COVID-19 ha generado una gran crisis existencial para occidente y su forma liberal de consumo. Bares, restaurants, aeropuertos, estaciones de trenes cerrados, como así también el espacio aéreo y las fronteras. El concepto occidental de la movilidad –y la hospitalidad— han cambiado generando un gran shock. Empero, en el siguiente ensayo discutimos una tesis contraria: el COVID-19 lejos de ser un evento fundante, es la continuación de una tendencia nacida luego del 9/11 y que hemos bautizado la muerte de la hospitalidad moderna.

The day the earth stopped: philosophical discussion around coronavirus and the end of hospitality.

Abstract

Doubtless, the virus outbreak of COVID-19 has accelerated a great existential crisis in the West as well as for the liberal forms of consumption. Restaurants, malls, airports, train stations are temporarily closed, without mentioning the airspace and borders. Ushering Occident in a great nightmare, COVId-19 radically shifted the modern notion of mobility and so to speak, hospitality. Nevertheless, in this essay-review we discuss the contradictory tendency. Far from being a turning point, COVId-19 reaffirms an old tendency emerged just after 9/11 and the War on terror, a tendency which today marks the end of hospitality, as least as we know it.