“It’s a Matter of Working or Dying of Hunger”: Neoliberalism, Pandemic, and Violence on Twitter
This article aims to problematize discourses about the lockdown engendered on Twitter by public political figures. Based on Pecheut’s Discourse Analysis and on Foucault’s and Mbembe’s considerations on biopower and necropolitics, we seek in the corpus enunciative regularities (un)veiled in the metap...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2023 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Universidade Federal de Uberlândia (UFU) |
| Repository: | Letras & letras (Online) |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs.www.seer.ufu.br:article/67914 |
| Online Access: | https://seer.ufu.br/index.php/letraseletras/article/view/67914 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | Pandemia Discurso Redes sociais Lockdown Necropolítica Pandemic Discourse Social networks Necropolitics |
| Summary: | This article aims to problematize discourses about the lockdown engendered on Twitter by public political figures. Based on Pecheut’s Discourse Analysis and on Foucault’s and Mbembe’s considerations on biopower and necropolitics, we seek in the corpus enunciative regularities (un)veiled in the metaphorical effects produced in the confront between the thread of the discourse and interdiscourse. In our analyses, we outline three predominant discourses, namely: the rivalry discourse, the helplessness discourse, and the religious discourse, which are constituted by a neoliberal interdiscursivity, which, in turn, serves to hold the State less responsible for the ills faced by citizens and to corroborate the suffering of those who are part of the “global south”. |
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