SOLIDARNOST I AUTONOMIJA U KONTEKSTU PANDEMIJE: DOMINANTNI REČNICI KRITIKE I SKICA ALTERNATIVE
SOLIDARITY AND AUTONOMY IN THE CONTEXT OF THE PANDEMIC: DOMINANT VOCABULARIES OF CRITIQUE AND AN OUTLINE OF AN ALTERNATIVE

Summary/Abstract: The paper analyzes dominant vocabularies of the critique of the official Covid-19 pandemic policy in Serbia, which are considered representative of the general emancipatory potential of the pandemic, in the sense of its potential to delegitimize neoliberal democracy. The paper examines two such vocabularies which possess a certain critical potential in this respect – the “proceduralist liberal-democratic” one and the vocabulary of “life before economy” – in order to point to the incapacity of these vocabularies to grasp the state pandemic policy as a form of social domination which counters the threat to the legitimacy of the political order created by the pandemic. The author analyzes the nature of social domination that can be read out of the main narrative of the pandemic policy – the narrative of “undisciplined citizens” – and concludes that this is a type of “complex domination” (Luc Boltanski) which possesses the structure of a “normative paradox” (Axel Honneth and Martin Hartmann). Finally, the paper presents an outline of an alternative left critique of the pandemic policy which formulates a preliminary model of the “intersubjective constitution” of personal autonomy in the democratic public sphere as the basic precondition for the capcacity of citizens to express mutual solidarity.

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