当代时空压缩背景下新冠疫情的社会特征及治理策略选择

自2019年年底暴发并延续至今的新冠疫情,并非偶发性的自然事件,而是内源于当代社会并造成重大全球性灾难的社会事件。时空压缩既是当代社会时空结构特征的凝练表达,也是新冠疫情发生的基本场域,准确把握新冠疫情的本质离不开时空压缩这一重要背景。一方面,新冠疫情的发生始终处于当代时空结构中,它在暴发、传播以及治理过程中表现出的社会特征,是新冠病毒的自然属性与时空压缩社会特征遭遇和碰撞的产物;另一方面,新冠疫情的社会特征不仅突显出时空压缩背景下当代社会的高风险性和脆弱性,而且打破了人们对资本逻辑支配下时空压缩破坏性后果盲目乐观的迷思。遏制新冠疫情蔓延的关键是准确界定当代时空压缩背景下新冠疫情的社会特征,并采取有针对性的治理策略。

Social Characteristics and Governance Strategies of COVID-19 Pandemic in the Context of Contemporary Time-Space Compression

As a major social event deriving from contemporary society and conversely triggering its upheaval, COVID-19 pandemic is not a simple natural event. Time-space compression is the concise expression of contemporary social time-space structure, as well as the basic field where COVID-19 pandemic takes place, thus to carry out an overall and systematic research is inseparable from this important background. On one hand, the occurrence of the COVID-19 pandemic has always formed in the contemporary time-space structure. Social characteristics of the COVID-19 pandemic in the process of its outbreak, spread and governance are the outcome of the encounter of natural attribute of SARS-CoV-2 and time-space compression. On the other hand, social characteristics of the COVID-19 pandemic not only highlight high risk and vulnerability of contemporary society in the context of time-space compression, but also decrease the blind optimism of human beings towards time-space compression dominated by capital logic. Therefore, it is the premise and key for enhancing the levels of the prevention and control of the COVID-19 pandemic to accurately define its social characteristics based on basic components of contemporary time-space compression and then find a breakthrough.