The Postmodern Absurd in the context of Corona

Abstract

A pandemic is an aporia to the human culture and existence which presents before us a lack of human engagement as well as in the coexistence of Culture and Nature. The outbreak of Corona virus/ Covid-19 was an unanticipated event that brought a rupture in the culture of human existence and while rupturing the cultural history of human race it is also documenting a new history as Albert Camus in The Plaguesays human existence can never be immune. The mention of Corona will cease to remain complete if the most significant precautionary event, the world-wide Lockdown is not mentioned. Lockdown in the history will remain documented as an event that broke down the dichotomy of Life/Death as to prevent death of the masses due to the virus, employment and economy falls in a deep pit which gives rise to starvation, hunger and death. Jean Francois Lyotard in his The Postmodern Condition theories it and as P. K Nayar writes - "Lyotard inaugurated the key theoretical note in postmodernism when he characterizes it as a resistance to the great narratives, and focused on the marginal, the liminal and the fragmented, arguing against totalising systems of thought." In this study I would like to state an argument that killing of Culture can be Cleansing of Nature and how a pandemic can be a postmodern absurd where the human existence is the cause of human death re-presenting how Camus' Absurd philosophy has already left an open-ended solution.