Neoliberal life and the anti-neoliberal imaginary

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Juliana Aggio

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The Covid 19 pandemic has exposed the historic loss of certain lives, highlighting the cruelty to which we are subjected in the neoliberal capitalist system. This essay seeks to show that the current crisis is the result of a neoliberal way of life, as well as to raise possibilities of resistance based on an anti-neoliberal imaginary that inspires the desire to resist and transform the current state of things, and, more specifically, here in Brazil, taking into account all the racial and sexist oppression that is ours.

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Juliana Aggio, Universidade Federal da Bahia (UFBA)

I have a bachelor's, master's and doctorate in Philosophy from the University of São Paulo, having completed a sandwich doctorate at the École Normale Supérieure - Paris, under the guidance of Francis Wolff (2009-2010). I am a professor in the philosophy department and a member of the postgraduate program in Philosophy (PPGF) and Interdisciplinary Studies on Women, Gender and Feminism (PPGNEIM) at the Federal University of Bahia. I did a post-doctorate at UFRJ (2022-2023) and was a visiting professor at the University of Paris 8 (2023), on the current research project: "Critical practices of the self: freedom and power in the constitution of the self in Foucault and Butler". I was leader of the research group "Ethics and moral psychology in Ancient Philosophy", with a research project funded by Cnpq and Fapesb (2016-2022), coordinator of the WG Philosophy and Gender (2021-2022), member of the WG Epictetus of Anpof, administrator of the Brazilian Network of Women Philosophers since its creation in 2019, and permanent member of the Organizing Committee of the Bahia Philosophy Meeting (EFIBA) since its creation in 2015. I published the books "Pleasure and Desire in Aristotle" (Edufba) and "Women Philosophers" (Kotter). I make use of conceptual tools to research issues relating to the constitution of contemporary subjectivity based on an appropriation of ancient Stoicism and Cynicism and the thought of Foucault, Butler, Wittig, among other feminists, as well as topics related to non-hegemonic epistemologies, dissident sexualities, multiplicities of gender, race, feminisms and their intersections, and other ways of doing philosophy.

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