Mi-temps de la crise. Expériences, questions, anticipations

Written in the midst of the pandemic in 2020, this article aims to interrogate the current period of
crisis and its challenges from the double meaning of the Greek term, thus highlighting the close links
between medicine and politics. In the first part, the contribution focuses on the emergence of protests
against state racism in the United States and on the “Black Lives Matter” movement, which is
interpreted as a resurgence in nowadays politics and considered revolutionary in its radical non-violent
character. The second part concentrates on public health services. In this context, the health crisis
appears to be an opportunity to question the need for a welfare state at the present time and reveals the
tension between the vertical logic of the state and the horizontal logic of the commons. The article
concludes with a reflection on the economic crisis and its social consequences with the purpose of
questioning the future of neoliberal capitalism and the catastrophic effects of industrial civilisation on
the environment.