2023-06-142023-06-142020-07MARTINS, Ricardo Evandro Santos. O vírus neoliberal no Brasil e a polêmica com Giorgio Agamben. Voluntas, online, v. 11, e20, p. 1-8, jul. 2020. Edição especial. DOI: https://doi.org/10.5902/2179378644019. Disponível em: https://repositorio.ufpa.br/jspui/handle/2011/15682. Acesso em:.2179-3786https://repositorio.ufpa.br/jspui/handle/2011/15682I explore the concepts of field and state of exception and try to show how Giorgio Agamben, on the one hand, is coherent with his work, besides being right in the diagnosis of the present, but, on the other hand, exaggerates the distrust of the real mortality of Coronavirus and, also, how this position of the Italian philosopher does not serve the Brazilian experience, especially regarding the problem of an apparent agreement of the Minister Araújo with the president, Jair Messias Bolsonaro, with his alert for the state of permanent exception.Acesso Abertohttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0/Giorgio AgambenCoronavírusPandemiaEstado de ExceçãoErnesto AraújoBiopolíticaPandemicEstate of exceptionBiopoliticsArtigo de Periódico10.5902/2179378644019