Open AccessBrazil: the real dystopia project. Disjunctures, pandemics, and politics under Bolsonaro
Author(s) -
Frédéric Vandenberghe,
Suman Gupta
Publication year - 2021
Publication title -
digit.hvm
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.159
H-Index - 3
ISSN - 1575-2275
DOI - 10.7238/d.v0i27.375160
Subject(s) - dystopia , politics , pandemic , covid-19 , heuristic , political science , history , political economy , sociology , medicine , law , computer science , virology , disease , artificial intelligence , pathology , outbreak , infectious disease (medical specialty)
Brazil under President Bolsonaro is an extreme case of multiple system failures that bring the country to the brink of collapse. It has a tremendous heuristic potential as a prefiguration of what the “post-pandemic world” could be like. It is “good to think with”. Experimentally, the article submits current events to a disjuncture analysis that gathers various perspectives and fragments into a literary montage.