Politics and economic crisis: the capital and its saying and silencing ways

Abstract

This article has a double objective: 1) to pay homage to Eni Orlandi for the commemoration of the 30th anniversary of her book release “As Formas do Silence” (“The Shapes of Silence”, in a free translation); and 2) reflect, considering the category of silence, on the intertwining of political and economic discourse in capitalist society in structural crisis. The course of the present study was, firstly, to resume the categories of founding silence and politics of silence so that we analyze the interviews, broadcast on Jornal Nacional, from Globo TV channel, of the two most cited candidates in the first round of the election for the presidency of Brazil in 2022: Lula and Bolsonaro. As a result, it was possible to understand from these interviews the functioning of the policy of silence (silencing) on the structural crisis of the capital, producing effects of reproduction/transformation on the socio-historical reality of the Brazilian social formation.