FREITAS, Felipe Sampaio de.; LEMOS, Flávia Cristina Silveira.; GALINDO, Dolores Cristina Gomes.
Abstract:
This article aimed to create a theoretical essay about biopolitics in view of the
spread of contagion by the new coronavirus. Through analytical work on the increase in
biovigilance technologies in the face of the pandemic by Covid-19, this text sought to
achieve a perspective of the happening processes in contemporary society in the name of
social defense and life management. Studies by Michel Foucault, Han and Bauman helped
in this proposal to problematize the control and security practices implemented in the name
of making life and letting die in progress, in the current neoliberalism. Therefore, a social
psychopolitical and philosophical plan for the pandemic and its effects was approached, as
a detailed process of spreading the disease, contagion and ways of dealing with these
complex events took shape. Thus, the article presented a theoretical essay on the
authoritarian uses of biovigilance during the pandemic and the description of some of its
effects and modes of materiality.
