CONTROL, SUBJUGATION AND PRODUCTION DEADLY: AN ANALYSIS OF THE PROJECT OF RATIONAL EMANCIPATION, FROM MODERNITY TO THE COVID-19 PANDEMIC

Abstract

This essay aims to reflect some points considered relevant to the understanding of human “rationality”. Technologies of modernity were produced from rationality, which infiltrated the social core as something that, until then, signaled “progress”. But, the technological conquests in the accelerated march to the progress of science also produced serious consequences that turned against the man himself, since he starts to be subjugated, controlled and dominated by his own creations. The text brings as a study a type of contemporary domination over man: deadly production about the strategy applied in health policy during the pandemic phase of Covid-19, of deciding the life and death of some. The conclusion reached is that the population is dominated by technological sophistication, and when it came to managing rational measures against Covid-19, they were adopted unevenly, disfavoring socioeconomically vulnerable groups, without taking into account the specific needs of this population. There was a lack of assistance to this most vulnerable population with basic services, as well as the lack of production and dissemination of data regarding this neglect, which only contributed even more to accentuate racial inequalities in the country, it is certainly the strategy to be fulfilled the application of death to these bodies. The essay was developed with a view supported by theories of philosophy and social sciences to try to understand and reflect on the project of human rationality, as well as using the survey of texts published in scientific journals and news, predominantly of a qualitative nature, to based on the Covid-19 pandemic scenario.