2023-05-192023-05-192022-04SILVA, Samuel Cavalcante da; SOUSA, Kátia Menezes de. A bolsa ou a vida: os discursos de enfrentamento à Covid-19 no Brasil. Antares, Caxias do Sul, v. 14, n. 32, p. 30-56, jan./abr. 2022. DOI: 10.18226/19844921.v14.n32.02Disponível em: http://www.ucs.br/etc/revistas/index.php/antares/article/view/10413. Acesso em: 12 maio 2023.e- 1984-4921http://repositorio.bc.ufg.br/handle/ri/22575This article aims to discuss the biopolitical mechanisms of power that provide conditions for the existence of statements that, by producing a dualism between the maintenance of the economy and the preservation of life, constitute the discursive event of the pandemic in Brazil and the techniques for conducting the behaviors of the population. Therefore, the analysis follows the theoretical-methodological path of discourse analysis in the sense of Michel Foucault and puts, in tension, the discourses that support, regardless of lost lives, the defense of the neoliberal economy that prescribes entrepreneurship as the way out of crisis resulting from the covid-19 and, at the same time, captures the subjectivity of the worker so that he assumes the conduct of the neoliberal ideal of the “business subject”.porAcesso Abertohttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/PandemiaVidaEconomia de mercadoSubjetividadePandemicMichel FoucaultLifeMarket economySubjectivityArtigohttp://dx.doi.org/10.18226/19844921.v14.n32.02