Miguel Wiñazki
03/10/2021 17:40
Clarín.com
Politics
Updated 03/10/2021 5:46 PM
Soledad Quereilhac's interesting and detailed doctoral thesis is a space that somehow condenses and opens new floodgates, indirectly and tacitly, to the controversy that her name is now displaying to all four winds.
Among other notable figures of literature and academia,
Quereilhac thanks Beatriz Sarlo in her thesis "for her classes and suggestions."
It displays various items neatly through a common thread that is the
"imaginary of science
.
"
For example, spiritism, telepathy, clairvoyance or theosophy.
It also analyzes the journalistic treatment of the scientific evolution that erupted like a volcano towards the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th and draws a description of the view that the newspapers La Prensa, La Nación, and the sarcastic magazine Caras contributed to these discoveries and advances. and Masks.
It detects or rather hypothesizes a pattern in all cases: “The field of written journalism was one of the most powerful production plants of a popular scientific imaginary, vulgarized and mostly oriented to celebrate the amazing, perhaps“ magical ”sides of technical progress -scientific".
The paradox is that the offer of the vaccine to Beatriz Sarlo offers a magical dimension.
If an academic celebrity gets vaccinated, then the people will do the same.
More than magical it is advertising, and even more than advertising,
the device of the offer to Sarlo is political.
It is the pseudo-sanitary policy that replaces the deficiencies of the vaccination method with propaganda.
But behind the propaganda, the objective of achieving oblivion regarding the VIP vaccines that so many young people in La Cámpora have considered their own and, therefore, revolutionary even at the cost of the health of those who really need them, is not covered up.
The case of Beatriz Sarlo, in the center of the scene, is a moral, legal and pseudo-sanitary crossroads that
the writer reveals to the judge by exhibiting the exchanges of messages
and her refusal for ethical reasons to offer an unacceptable privilege, which she effectively rejected .
"I'd rather die drowning in COVID," Sarlo replied flatly.
In terms of Quereilhac herself in her thesis, she herself, the governor's wife, sought a "miracle."
That term so used by journalism at that time: "scientific miracle", associating it with what is not scientific in the strict sense.
A miracle is precisely the supra-rational and not science.
But today, through the suggestion of Dr. Quereilhac to the writer,
the desired miracle was to turn a privilege into an opportunity to
promote the official management of the coronavirus.
It went wrong and allowed to show terrible facets of the prevailing fanaticism.
A nac & pop bookseller announced that it would burn Sarlo's books, then deleted his message from the networks with inexcusable excuses.
Is it necessary to remember Heine and his fateful and very real prophecy?
"Where books are burned, later men will be burned."
The fanaticism that also launched the networks to execrate Sarlo or defend the governor regardless of a previous evaluation of the facts.
The facts are simple and thunderous.
Vaccines have been applied en masse to those who have not received them.
And that irregularity is not solved with selective advertising
focused on well-known figures.
The construction of a popular imaginary based on the “scientific”, trivialized by the press, according to Quereilhac's view, is a pertinent subject of analysis, as is also pertinent to determine how the political as a communicational system emancipated from the facts themselves builds a narrative about vaccines that does not fit what happens.
The official and pro-government narrative has "trivialized" the seriousness of the vaccine issue by propagating promises that were not kept, lying, distributing privileges, blessing feudal confinements, and exhibiting clumsiness and negligence even beyond the political color of the rulers.
There are always two worlds in Argentina, that of facts and that of discursive configurations, to put it academically.
They wanted to include Sarlo in a fictional and tricky discursive configuration
: I give you a vaccine in exchange for raising awareness.
Sarlo is an expert in linguistic devices and she detected the maneuver by exposing it.
Then everything became a show.
And rational and democratic vaccination continues to be a great sham.
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