Postcards from the Pandemic: The Ghost Town

In the weeks of the lockdown, we experienced a ghost town that paradoxically returned to having a physical consistency. Based on the definition of “specter” provided by Jacques Derrida, the text proposes to interpret the emergence of this city in relation to the quality-of-life policies, both relying on the conceptualizations of some contemporary authors and by setting the problem in relation to the perceptual canons that correspond to the current transformations of the historical city.