PRECARIOUS LIVES: THE IMPOSITION OF NEOLIBERAL IDEOLOGY AND NECROPOLITICS IN A TIME WITHOUT A FUTURE

Abstract

In recent decades we have experienced a process of acceleration of technological transformations, which imply social and economic transformations and in the very perception of the passage of time on the part of individuals. This new perception, which we identify as the expanded present or time without a future, is characterized by an exacerbation of the experience of the present to the detriment of the notions of past and future, being directly influenced by neoliberal thinking. With the COVID-19 pandemic, this perception of an expanded present has become even more evident. Using the work of Michel Foucault as a reference, this text seeks to analyze, from experiences in Brazil and the United States, how recent conservative and right-wing governments acted in this pandemic context and time without a future to build power relations based on a neoliberal way of dealing with information and life.