The open veins of Colonial philosophy still bleed.

Devices for controlling land, bodies, power and culture

Abstract

If God were not Brazilian, it would be difficult to understand the causes of a people who accept to live with the illusion of racial democracy; the myth of cordiality hiding authoritarianism, patrimonialism and political physiologism; the refusal to understand that football, politics and religion are national opiates, including in the form of the new Pentecostal patronagem; and the assumption that we live in an earthly Paradise whose ills arise only from Portuguese colonization and not from an ongoing political program. To explain these causes, we analyzed elements of the economic, social, political and cultural dimensions mediated by the concepts of land, body, power and education. In all of them, there is a general interest: understanding the control devices that govern Brazilian Society, condemning it, if not to suicide, at least to the perpetuation of slavery under the forms of individual and social domination of the population. 200 years after Independence, can Brazil celebrate the liberation and emancipation of its population?

hy, control devices, colonization, power.