Abstract

The objective of this work is to reflect on some of the sociopolitical and cultural aspects of what has happened in Chile in the wake of the Covid-19 pandemic. To this end, the text has been structured into three sections. The first addresses the concepts of biopolitics (Foucault) and necropolitics (Mbembe), which analyze how Pihera's government has privileged the economy as a policy of life (biopolitics), managing those who can live and those who let die (necropolitics), and has installed the discourse of politic as war in the context of a state of emergency as a paradigm of government (Agamben). The second section examines three examples that allow to develop a critique of the government's processes of depoliticization, disconnection and trivialization of the health crisis. Finally, a reflection is carried out on the "Ollas comunes" as a cultural practice that contributes to the re-politization of the neighborhoods.