A profanação do improfanável : o "capitalismo como religião" e uma reflexão ética a partir de Agamben

Abstract

The present study has as its theme the analysis of how, currently, capitalism can be considered a religion. This capitalist religion, unlike other known religions, is not about salvation, but about destruction. For through the various mechanisms that serve it, it makes people feel guilty, making them increasingly individualistic, egocentric, and consumerist. By concentrating capital in the hands of a few; Condemning many others to death or crime, capitalism acts as a systemic religious epidemic, including its "faithful" lack of awareness of this condition. This Dissertation presents how, at present, it is no longer possible to affirm that politics is done: what exists is biopolitics, which has the control and regulation / normalization of the bodies of the living as the main objective. This control is exercised through discipline and control, obtained from the most diverse devices, ruling a state of exception. Finally, the work proposes how a community of singularities can reverse this capitalist religion, or at least minimize its effects in the medium term, helping men to return to politics, thus avoiding biopolitics and, consequently, capitalism.