ALLEGORY AND NECROPOLITICS: THE CORPSE AS AN EMBLEM IN THE COUNTER-REFORM OF NEOLIBERALISM
Based on Walter Benjamin's concept of allegory, this article proposes considerations about the links between the disappearance of human bodies by the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship and the death policies undertaken during the Covid-19 pandemic by its heirs, now in power. The argument sta...
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| Format: | article |
| Status: | Published version |
| Publication Date: | 2022 |
| Country: | Brasil |
| Institution: | Universidade Federal do Tocantins (UFT) |
| Repository: | EntreLetras |
| Language: | Portuguese |
| OAI Identifier: | oai:ojs2.ufnt.acessoacademico.com.br:article/14490 |
| Online Access: | https://periodicos.ufnt.edu.br/index.php/entreletras/article/view/14490 |
| Access Level: | Open access |
| Keyword: | alegoria; cadáveres; contrarreforma do neoliberalismo allegory; corpses; neoliberalism counter-reform |
| Summary: | Based on Walter Benjamin's concept of allegory, this article proposes considerations about the links between the disappearance of human bodies by the Brazilian civil-military dictatorship and the death policies undertaken during the Covid-19 pandemic by its heirs, now in power. The argument starts from the allegorical expression of the corpse as emblem. In both contexts, such expression would be found in the very absence of these corpses. This absence prevents the work of collective mourning. Similarly, it provides a passive oblivion over which anti-democratic retrogressions, such as those that are taking shape now, in this other phase of neoliberalism, can be re-established. |
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