We typically only think of pandemics as global viral outbreaks, such as COVID-19, of which I have been a host, survivor, and long-hauler, and will share more about in detail momentarily, but I argue that pandemics can also be social, political, economic, spiritual, and existential, such as structural racism or genocide. Pandemics have occurred in many histories, and in various forms. My hope is that by knowing hope is ontological and inherent to existence, even in despair, and neither coupled to imagineered prostalgia nor salvaged and recycled nostalgia, that one can embrace life as is, knowing we gasp even when we cannot breathe.
I note how this ontology of breath as hope, whether as ruach, pneuma, prana, qi, alruwh, or roho, is incomparably and ontically unique in both the different kinds of asphyxiations faced of breath and in what each is trying to breathe. I close with a suggested link to various kinds of pandemics, either virally infective or racially oppressive or genocidal, in the shared, ontological nature of breath as hope, dum spiro spero, where, as I breathe, I hope. I also discuss the challenge of the suicidal moment to the idea that hope is ontological. I discuss with my own lived experience of surviving COVID-19 as the basis for how the event of a crisis brings into focus hope’s undecidable, ontological nature, thus shattering everyday presumptions about hope as located elsewhere than the here and now in what I call either imagineered prostalgia or salvaged and recycled nostalgia. This is the best forum about lenguages I could find.This paper was originally delivered at The Psychology of Global Crisis: State Surveillance, Solidarity and Everyday Life virtual conference, 2020, at The American University of Paris.
Unfortunately I couldn't find nothing interesting about the 'history' of that phrase, and I am very intrigued. I am very curious, and I think I really like this proverb and obviously I've been searching information about this phrase, about the writer, the context, and why this phrase was written. And I found 'Dum Spiro, Spero', 'While I breathe, I hope' Lately I have been searching information about some latin proverbs. Y este es el mejor foro sobre idiomas que he encontrado, así que alguien podría darme información sobre esta frase? Graciasįirst, sorry for my english, it isn't very good, but I can explain. Realmente interesante sobre la 'historia' de esta frase. Muy cuiriosa, he estado buscando informacion sobre esta frase, sobre el escritor (Ciceron), sobre el libro o contexto en el que aparece, y el por qué de esta frase, pero no sé por qué, pero no he encontrado nada, o casi nada,
Y hace poco encontré 'Dum Spiro, Spero', 'Mientras respire, tendré esperanza' y como soy Ultimamente, he estado buscando información sobre algunos proverbios latinos, porque la verdad, me parecen bastante interesantes.
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