DISCURSO, BIOPOLÍTICA E MODOS DE SUBJETIVAÇÃO DO IDOSO NA PANDEMIA

Abstract

In this article, we discuss the elaboration of elderly subjectivities as a target of biopolitics in the COVID-19 discourse. The analytical path started from Foucault’s theories about discourse and the subject articulating theoretical and methodological assumptions in the fields of language studies and other areas of social sciences. Interrogating the linguistic mechanisms, the games of memory and the felt effects that single out gestures of interpretation of the pandemic that put the elderly subjectivation modes in a referential position, we aim to show different regimes of truth and their relations of knowledge and power materialized in the statements of the pandemic discursive event.