Neoliberalism, ideology and Covid-19: An analysis from the perspective of Slavoj Žižek

This article looks at the Covid-19 pandemic as a contingent factor in, and its revelatory effect on, various contemporary expressions of neoliberal ideology in Latin America. Based on philosophical and psychoanalytical concepts of a Lacanian nature fundamentally proposed by Slavoj Žižek, it examines the critical uses of the notion of ideology in its various manifestations: fear of the other, imposition of the logic of self-promotion, destruction of social ties, extractivism of nature, and fetishization of the discourses of unity in the face of the pandemic. The hypothesis is that the pandemic offers an opportunity to rethink contemporary subjectivity, through a confrontation with the Real that borders on symbolization and, ultimately, ideological capture, in order to question the assertion that there is no alternative. © 2023 Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona and Universitat de Girona. All rights reserved.

A symptomatic reading of the coronavirus as a neoliberal production: political science and psychoanalytic reflections of post-foundational episteme

This work seeks to establish the hypothesis that the COVID-19 pandemic is a symptom of Capital under neoliberal governmentality. To account for this hypothesis, two traditions of contemporary political thought were worked: biopolitics, inaugurated by Michel Foucault, and post-foundational theories, arising from the link between Marxism and psychoanalysis. Finally, an attempt was made to affirm that the idea that the politicization of the pandemic, understood as a situated symptomatic reading, is a critical strategy for addressing social unrest that could open an emancipatory horizon. For this purpose a cartography on certain sensitive points that concern the conditions of symptomatic production of neoliberalism, the role of the State under the laws of the market and its links with the population will be deepened in a limited way © 2021, Discusiones Filosoficas.All Rights Reserved.

Deglobalize Covid-19: The pandemic from an off-center perspective

This article proposes a retrospective look at the last year following the World Health Organization’s declaration of Covid-19 as a pandemic, and seeks to reflect the wide diversity of its impact. In reviewing research from around the world, a panorama emerges showing the vast complexity of the phenomenon. This article reviews many of the analyses and debates that have been proposed from the framework of political philosophy, which are drawn almost exclusively from the European context. It shows that the suggested diagnoses, models and concepts can not be universally applied across geographies, such as Latin America, Asia or Africa. It therefore proposes to “deglobalize” the Covid-19 pandemic and invites the reader to consider it through another lens. © 2021, Universidade de Brasilia. All rights reserved.