Abstract
The article addresses processes of production of the dead that trigger new (in)sensitivities and modes of expression about dying and death, reaching in a dilated way groups already ostensibly exposed to the risk of death and the naturalization of their deaths. Based on ethnography research from the contexts of the metropolitan regions of Florianópolis and Rio de Janeiro, it observes how this dynamic is updated in the context of the Covid-19 pandemic by the promotion of forms of killing that have spread the instances of necropower within the scope of neoliberal governmentality in the Brazilian state. The analysis will reflect how killability is inscribed as a device that circumscribes a political and moral economy for specific ways of life, through the construction of the dead, the management of mourning and the naturalization of death.
Keywords:
dead; state violence; governmentality; ethnography