ABSTRACT
This article aimed to create a theoretical essay about biopolitics in view of the spread of contagion by the new coronavirus. Through analytical work on the increase in biovigilance technologies in the face of the pandemic by Covid-19, this text sought to achieve a perspective of the happening processes in contemporary society in the name of social defense and life management. Studies by Michel Foucault, Han and Bauman helped in this proposal to problematize the control and security practices implemented in the name of making life and letting die in progress, in the current neoliberalism. Therefore, a social psychopolitical and philosophical plan for the pandemic and its effects was approached, as a detailed process of spreading the disease, contagion and ways of dealing with these complex events took shape. Thus, the article presented a theoretical essay on the authoritarian uses of biovigilance during the pandemic and the description of some of its effects and modes of materiality.
Keywords:
Psychopolitics; biovigilance; Covid-19