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This paper aims to introduce a critical reflection on the 2019-new coronavirus (SARS-CoV-2). It hopes this discussion could be useful to other researchers in science and technology studies (STS), to better understand the multispecies landscapes emergence and its relations with current socio-environmental and sanitary crisis. Although the COVID-19 pandemic may be seen by some groups as the ultimate manifestation of a civilizational model in crisis, or an inflection point in the linear and uncritical trajectory driven by the modern technoscientific project; this paper emphasizes the importance of thinking about the conjuncture from the possible more-than-human alliances, collaborations and arrangement that could have appeared in this period. It concludes with an invitation to pay attention to new affective sensibilities emerging from multispecies relationships in the context of lockdown due to the COVID-19 outbreak. Finally, it could be argued that creative works of literary fiction, like Disgrace, a novel by J. M. Coetzee, are powerful means for understanding this empirical phenomenon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]