With the presidential run-off looming in Brazil, the country may be on the precipice of tyranny. To remind followers of BIOPOLITICAL PHILOSOPHY about some of what took place under the earlier Bolsonaro regime, I have copied below “Governing COVID in Brazil: Dissecting the Ableist and Reluctant Authoritarian” by disability theorists Francisco Ortega and Michael Orsini. […]

Governing COVID in Brazil: Dissecting the Ableist and Reluctant Authoritarian* By  Francisco Ortega and Michael Orsini Brazilians, says President Jair Bolsonaro, are so tough they can fend off this pesky COVID-19 virus, the same virus that has killed more than 147,000+ people worldwide and counting.  Likening COVID-19 to a “little flu”, the Brazilian leader has exposed, once […]