"À cabeceira do Estado jaz o crânio de um parente morto": a figura do soberano em território necropolítico

Abstract

This article analyzes necropolitics as background of military action in peripheral regions of Brazil. With this, we propose a conceptual deepening about the term necropolitics and an analysis of its performance in The Brazilian territory, exemplified from news published by electronic newspapers between the years 2017 and 2020. For this, the figure of the sovereign will be taken in the light of the articulation between life and language, because with the expectation of pacifying society, a series of discourses are produced with the intention of basing the image of the enemy and justifying the production of territories of deaths.