Abstract

GARCIA URIBE, John Camilo. Covid-19 and biopower: How to resist the normalization of crisis. Med. ética [online]. 2021, vol.32, n.1, pp.65-106.  Epub Aug 14, 2023. ISSN 2594-2166.  https://doi.org/10.36105/mye.2021v32n1.02.

It is an analysis and reflection on the normalization of the crisis as an exercise of biopower, its possible consequences and forms of resistance. All this, within the contextual framework of the SARS Cov-2 virus pandemic, Michel Foucault, Hans Jonas and Jared Diamond are taken as the main conceptual references. A reading of the Foucauldian theory of power is made to address the relationship between normalization of the crisis and biopower. Diamond and Jonas’ proposals, are placed in an interpretive dialogic framework, through which the author intends to give a responsive critical approach to the current situation. This from a position that takes fear, not as a paralyzing and stunning factor, but as a mobilizing agent that forces us to think, reflect and, with that, to be able to respond, expand the circles of compassion and empathy to take care of life in a common home and resist the normalization of biopower.

Keywords : standardization; crisis; biopower; coronavirus; compassion.

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