Objektivnost v krizi

The article discusses a recurrent discursive mechanism by which contemporary societies respond to the emergence of a crisis. Faced with the surplus of objectivity produced by a particular crisis – be it the global economic crisis, the refugee crisis, the climate emergency or the recent pandemic – a two-component defence mechanism is formed in discourse, which in turn also assumes a pseudo-objective status. In the first step, after the initial attempt to directly deny the emergence of a crisis is overturned, the crisis is affirmed by a compromise constatation of its existence that underscores the supposedly central insight that the crisis has brought; in the second step, the constatation is supplemented by a pseudo-objective rule of action. In the case of the current pandemic, discussed in detail in the third section of the article, the rule of action has been formed as a political generalisation of the principle of proportionality. Since it is not applicable to the basic dynamic principles of the pandemic and consequently cannot solve the crisis, it has been gradually reduced to a minimum: we must learn to live with the virus.Članek obravnava ponavljajoči se diskurzivni mehanizem, prek katerega se sodobne družbe odzivajo na pojavitev krize. Ko so soočene s presežkom objektivnosti, ki ga proizvede kriza – naj gre za globalno ekonomsko, begunsko, podnebno ali pandemsko –, se v diskurzu tvori dvokomponentni obrambni mehanizem, ki naposled tudi sam prevzame psevdo-objektivni status. V prvem koraku – potem ko je bila ovržen poskus neposredne negacije vznika krize – je kriza afirmirana s kompromisno konstatacijo njenega obstoja, ki izpostavi domnevno centralni uvid, ki ga je prinesla kriza; v drugem koraku je konstatacija dopolnjena s psevdo-objektivnim praktičnim pravilom. V primeru trenutne pandemije, ki je podrobno obravnavana v tretjem segmentu prispevka, je bilo praktično pravilo oblikovano kot politična generalizacija načela sorazmernosti. Ker slednje ni aplikabilno na osnovne dinamične principe pandemije in posledično ne more razrešiti krize, je bilo postopoma reducirano na minimum: moramo se naučiti živeti z virusom