John Ricco, Isolation, Loneliness, Solitude: The COVID-19 Pandemic Has Brought Us Too Close Together by C4eRadio: Sounds of Ethics

In this talk Professor John Ricco discusses how distance is the spacing of the ethical, isolation is the evacuation of that space, loneliness is the deprivation of the self, and solitude is what we need to reclaim as the only means by which an ethical sense of the common might take place. Drawing upon the work of Arendt, Agamben, Blanchot, and Foucault, Dr. Ricco proceeds to explicate how it is that the COVID-19 pandemic has actually brought us too close together.