The pandemic of 2020: prelude of a renewed neoliberalism?
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https://doi.org/10.5902/2179378643955Keywords:
Neoliberalism, Pandemic, Fear, Contagion, Subjectivity, Precarity, GovernmentalityAbstract
The article approaches, from a philosophical perspective, the relation between the pandemic caused by Covid-19 and the production of subjectivities in a global context of neoliberalism. The spreading of coronavirus worldwide and the incapacity of health systems throughout many countries to take care of all in need has given rise to interpretations that the global health crisis would mean a stinging blow to the neoliberal current model, so that such an episode could mean a sing of the decay of capitalism. Based on Michel Foucault’s studies about governmentality and the formation of medical knowledge, we intend to argue for the hypothesis that, actually, the current pandemic may represent the rise of a revigorated neoliberalism. A governmentality which products subjects docilized, at the same time, to acceptance of abrupt changes in their life conditions and the seek for productivity in the form of enterprise of the self.
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