Da escola à sala de casa - a escola em tempos de pandemia: o necrobiopoder em discursos de status do WhatsApp

Abstract

This study aims to analyze the discursive manifestations of WhatsApp status in relation to the “decrees of the National Education Council (CNE) in legitimizing the provision of remote education for Basic Education. Specifically, we discuss how the Brazilian government's biopolitics can become a necrobiopolitics, since a considerable part of the population is outside this teaching model. Thus, we chose the status discursive genre of WhatsApp, as it is a genre that immediately expresses social opinion about a given phenomenon. For this purpose, we selected 30 posts, of which we delimited 6 (six) for this analysis as we deem pertinent to our discussion. We take as theoretical support for our analysis the ideas of Foucault (1979, 2006), especially on biopower and biopolitics, focusing on the State as the holder of power. Regarding social discourses, represented in WhatsApp status, we take Bakhtin (2011) discursive genre ideas. On the profusion of necropolitics, we used the studies by Mbembe (2018) as a basis. We use some contemporary studies on inclusive education that support our musings about the exclusionary character that remote education causes in the Brazilian educational scenario. The results of this study show that discursive subjects use the WhatsApp status to express immediate concerns about issues that meet the socially acceptable standard.