Discourse and Strategies of Resistance to Neoliberal Rationality in Comic Strips

Authors

  • Francisco Vieira da Silva Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-Árido. Caraúbas, RN, Brasil.

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.35520/diadorim.2025.v27n1a67547

Abstract

This article analyzes comic strips from the series “Os empreendedores”, written by Toni D’ Agostinho. The aim is to analyze how the discourses of these strips make strategies of resistance to neoliberal rationality work, specifically the effects of truth produced about entrepreneurship and the entrepreneurial subject. The theoretical framework is based mainly on Foucauldian Discursive Studies. Seven strips published on the Instagram profile of the artist mentioned above were studied. The analysis makes it possible to affirm that entrepreneurship is re-signified, with a view to denouncing the precarious working conditions of today and, in this way, we see the performance of practices of resistance to neoliberalism.

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Author Biography

Francisco Vieira da Silva, Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-Árido. Caraúbas, RN, Brasil.

Doutor em Linguística pela Universidade Federal da Paraíba (UFPB). Docente da Universidade Federal Rural do Semi-Árido (UFERSA). 

Published

2025-09-17

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DIADORIM VOLUME 27.1 – Dossiê de Língua - Texto e interfaces: uma homenagem à Maria Aparecida Lino Pauliukonis