Drama Setting and War Zone: Senses of Space in Covid-19 Times

Abstract

From the theoretical and methodological perspective of the Materialistic Discourse Analysis (PÊCHEUX, [1969] 2019; [1975] 2009), this article aims to analyze how the space is signified through discursive practices concerning the Covid-19 pandemic: the State advertising and the infrared thermometer. This way, we comprehend that there are two models of space management: the drama setting, related to disciplinary power and biopolitics (FOUCAULT, [1975] 2010; [1978] 2008); and the war zone, related to the society of control (DELEUZE, 1992) and to the necropolitics (MBEMBE, 2018). In addition, it is possible to observe that space regulation, in the context of fighting the pandemic, has a differential in relation to the categories of class, sex, gender, and race.

Keywords:
Discourse; Space; Discipline; Necropolitics; Covid-19