MAKING IT PRECARIOUS: Authoritarian neoliberalism and necrogovernmentality

Abstract

This article analyses the articulations between necropolitics and neoliberal labor management in Brazil. It is intended to argue that authoritarian neoliberalism operates both coercively, using the apparatus of security and justice, and through the management of psychological suffering and the processes of subjectivation. For this, it starts from the understanding that neoliberal necropolitics involves, also, interventions aiming to make precarization, that is, to produce suffering in the bodies through the administration of deadly conditions, as becomes explicit with the neoliberal platformization of work in Brazil. Finally, the article introduces some considerations about the impacts of this neoliberal necropolitical management of precariousness on the forms of subjectivation of workers, shedding light on neoliberal necrogovernmentality as management of the conditions of emergence of anguish.