Brazil: the real dystopia project. Disjunctures, pandemics, and politics under Bolsonaro
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چکیده
Brazil under President Bolsonaro is an extreme case of multiple system failures that bring the country to brink collapse. It has a tremendous heuristic potential as prefiguration what “post-pandemic world” could be like. “good think with”. Experimentally, article submits current events disjuncture analysis gathers various perspectives and fragments into literary montage.
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Digithum
سال: 2021
ISSN: ['1575-2275']
DOI: https://doi.org/10.7238/d.v0i27.375160