Apollo / s in quarantine: landscapes and overflights of the city. Brief genealogy of the landscape, the city and epidemic / pandemic in Córdoba

Abstract

This article aims to tentatively establish a genealogical analysis of the tilting of the gaze in the city of Córdoba, showing the entanglements between the angles of vision and the landscape. We tried to attend to those events when society and the urban environment were considered to have to be protected against something placed as a disease, whether it was interpreted in the biological or socio-political order. It is pointed out that one of the most used performances to install Covid 19 in the order of the sensible, had to do with various strategies for tilting the gaze, especially a "zenith way of appearing" from different cartographies. These placed in the order of visibility that which is present in our "surrounding world" remained hidden from our "perceptual world". By raising the idea of ​​"way of appearing" in / of the landscape, it allows going beyond the physical or morphological presence (of a Real in philosophical terms) and certain dichotomies typical of the modern paradigm. The point then is that this "zenith mode of appearing" is neither good nor bad, nor is it neutral. We must look for other couplings - even zenith - so that this "gesture" or "way of appearing" that we carry out enables more supportive ethics and political projects that are developed from the collective.