TY - JOUR AU - Abbate, Fabrizia PY - 2021/07/20 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Temporary Blended: Why Ethics of Stasis Still Matters JF - Aisthesis. Pratiche, linguaggi e saperi dell’estetico JA - aisthesis VL - 14 IS - 1 SE - Monographica DO - UR - https://oajournals.fupress.net/index.php/aisthesis/article/view/12540 SP - 15-22 AB - <p class="p1">The etymon <span class="s1">στάσις</span> goes back to the Greek word <span class="s1">ἵστημι</span>, which means “to stay”: this ancient Greek verb denotes presence, spatiality, permanence. In these pages, <span class="s1">stasis</span> is the perfect word to describe the unusual dimension built all around us by the advent of the Covid pandemic during the lockdown months in our nation.&nbsp;Our daily movements and activities were stopped, we were forced to stay at home as a form of social distancing, or there were those who had the obligation to remain enclosed in healthcare facilities. This paper will describe three hermeneutic figures for the <span class="s1">stasis</span>, using suggestions that literature, visual arts and philosophy have been offering for centuries: the <span class="s1">night</span>, the <span class="s1">threshold</span> and <span class="s1">distance</span>. They all converge to define the outlines of an ethics that should be reaffirmed in the present, as little pieces of a mosaic brought to light.</p> ER -