Biopolítica da pandemia : discursos, produção de verdades e processos educativos durante a crise sanitária do Coronavírus no Brasil.

Abstract

This research aims to analyze, through the lenses of Michel Foucault, the context of pandemics in history, its repercussions on the construction of the subject and society and the production of subjectivities from the bio and necropolitical conducts of neoliberal governmentality, which construct normatives, educate and subjectivate individuals immersed in a pandemic scenario that is reproduced today. The way the State conducts the pandemic in Brazil brings to the surface the lives that are considered losable, killable, destructible, that do not deserve mourning or are not susceptible to suffering. It is in this context that the biopolitics no longer operates, but a necropolitical model of neoliberal governmentality, which produces the bodies that do not matter, using a power that acts over age groups, over poor populations, over colors, ethnicities, genders, and sexualities. The globalization of neoliberalism creates the ideal environment for the establishment of bio and necropolitics that cross the structures of this model that has capital, profit at all costs, at its core. To think about bio and necropolitics, about the implications of the discourse and about the educational and subjectivation processes that constitute us, is also to reflect about the set of practices that promote the genocide of certain groups that, through the neoliberal logic and its power devices, become completely vulnerable to death. The research broadens our understanding about the necropolitical arrangements of neoliberal governmentality, especially in the context of exacerbated vulnerability in which the Covid-19 pandemic is constituted. It is essential that we confirm our opposition to a logic that excludes, that makes vulnerable, that oppresses, and that kills. We cannot accept that mourning be simplified, that death be naturalized, that it become acceptable. There is an urgent ethical, human issue, so that resistance to the wheel of violence can be sustained.