COVID-19, apagones y oscuridad

Abstract

The pandemic has altered our everyday life leading us to confinement, a seclusion and isolation that has been operating in our territory originated in the necropolitical power of the Venezuelan state. A new biopolitic is being talked about, of new controls, of life systems conducted by definitions such as: social distancing, new normality, disciplined or under surveillance. This situation confines the individual body to a new reality driven from the opacity of infodemics and its generated panic, in this new interfered reality. We pretend to study this context in the Venezuelan reality, in which Covid-19 is just another factor of what we already have lived through electrical blackouts and obscurity that have confined our bodies previous to the use of protecting masks. Forced to mobilize in obscurity, in the blackout, in which we have learned to see with another eyes, our everyday resistance spaces of social bodies denying subjugation, and how this resistant bodies burst in works such as Apagon (2020) from Manuela Armand or in Estudios para un apagon (2019-2020) from Rafael Arteaga.