A Rhetoric of power
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https://doi.org/10.11606/issn.1984-1124.i30p80-95Keywords:
Power speech, Biopower, Biopolitics, Pandemic, UtopiaAbstract
The discourse of power, an always relevant issue in Roland Barthes, goes back to his first critical exercises, translated in the fragmented articles of Mythologies, and can be seen as a prism of his entire work, with emphasis on the reflections presented in Aula, which remains one of the author's most intense and radical texts. The aim of this article is to analyze the issue from reflections and questions by Barthes himself and authors who also address similar themes, such as Michel Foucault and Susan Sontag, especially in the interface with biopower and biopolitics, concepts that have great relevance to the Brazilian political scenario and in the context of the covid-19 pandemic.
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