Biopolitical technologies have regulated the response to COVID-19 in Southern Europe. Public care measures, especially disciplinary ones, have aimed at the house confinement of the entire population. The place of residence is at the heart of the economy of the consumption of tele-consumption and of the production of tele-production, configuring the individual household as a space for cyber-surveillance, an identifiable place on a Google map, or a simple location where a drone can monitor. We have seen that the slogans of the majority of the presidents have been published following the logic of the war narrative: “We are at war”, “we will overcome”, “we do not leave the house”, the commands “continue teleworking”, have been submissive measures to increase social control. Through mobiles and laptops, we have visualized the cavity of our houses as the antecedent of the lightened prison of the future, a contemporary hyper-connected fortress.

Surely, even if unconsciously, we are reproducing the model of the neoliberal system, now that the health crisis has forced us to do so. The mission of the neoliberal government is to put politics at the service of a market management, provoking the outsourcing of public services and welfare and constantly betting on a total privatization of social services. It is the neoliberal realm that moves the financial system and focuses on the inclusion of market law as a fundamental law for life.

Now, more than ever, it is necessary to create new strategies of emancipation and resistance to initiate antagonistic processes driven by the neoliberal system. Because they cannot come from the restriction of civil rights and freedoms, but from the equality of competences of all living beings on the planet, but from a protection pact that guarantees biodiversity, democracy, coexistence and care for all human beings. It will now be essential to start the processes of democratic and socio-political recovery in each place.

The disaster caused to nature has revealed the limits of our civilization, we need a reflection on a more balanced and egalitarian world, betting on life as the strongest social fabric, building community from house to house, from neighborhood to neighborhood, from village to village. Undoubtedly, the best way to deal with a crisis is to turn it into a new opportunity to recognize a sovereign community that wants to weave networks of communities that have been built during confinement and to build them in an upward direction. It is time to move from fear (first, from fear of contagion) to Community responsibility (first, from guilt for being different) and from subordination (from subordination of the hegemonic state), to Community responsibility, to bravery, the best way forward, now as a way of constructing sovereignty. The risk of life, as the pandemic has shown us, is the condition of our life.

Responsibility after the pandemic, beyond personal attitude, is fundamentally political, in favor of what characterizes us to be responsible, and in the responsibility of what unites us, assuming all responsibility for the property of the world we share. The production work of the community, as a public space for narrative and action, is also a narrative space to answer key questions. From this new citizen property created by the pandemic can be born a humanity, a power and a power of equitable redistribution of goods, deepening democracy and firmly opening the path of social justice.

The desire for community that derives from the productive attitude of the community consists in the empowerment for the regeneration of transformative and creative intelligence. Today, building community is building from oneself and from others, that is fundamental. Delving deeper into the very root, building community, because it is the main way to deal with neoliberalism, because if it is curbed, it must be done from the construction of the community. The construction of the community as a permanent and constant activity of the creation of humanity, an endless task from generation to generation.

Clearly, in the light of what has been seen and experienced in this pandemic, the clash between neoliberalism and democracy is irresistible. In this sense, in order to build a new sovereignty, the model of unlimited growth of global civilization, which is intended to regulate universally, is opposed to the will of the local community, the need to build the global relationship that we live on other warms. We have already said that the law of the market, on the road to becoming the main law of life, in order to protect itself from the uniformity of the neoliberal mass, needs a common welfare and a priority public interest. This foundation is fundamentally based on the theoretical matrix of popular will, as explained by Laclauk, his will and will to build community. It is the starting point for building a political relationship of equality that admits to the community to open its way to self-awareness. Now we have the need to recognize the new political subject that is in the aftermath of the collective construction of the community, if something is going to change here.