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English to Portuguese: VIRAL CRITIQUE: BIOARZTCHY AGAINST BIOPOTENCY IN THE COVID-19 AGE General field: Social Sciences Detailed field: Philosophy
Source text - English Se há um elemento teórico sobre a morte que tanto a concepção clássica humanística quanto sua versão mais pop – encarnada nos quadrinhos e filmes da Marvel, por exemplo – têm em comum é a tentadora (e tola) ideia da morte como grande igualadora. Deixemos de lado a ideia clássica, que diz que essa hora chega a todos, como se a diferença entre viver e sobreviver não fosse relevante. Passemos a outra perspectiva, defendida pelos seguidores da teoria vingadora de Gaia
temperada com toques malthusianos, que parece considerar que as pandemias e as catástrofes são mecanismos de defesa do planeta contra quem o fere, tendo por fundamento o problema objetivo da superpopulação. Aqui nos referimos à teoria divulgada nos filmes dos Vingadores por Thanos,
personagem oriundo dos quadrinhos, vilão e apaixonado servidor da morte. Para ele, a iminente chegada de pandemias, guerras, fomes e catástrofes climáticas, geradas pelo aumento da população no universo e o consumo incessante dos recursos de qualquer planeta, exige a aplicação de um plano cuja aleatoriedade ele confunde com uma suposta natureza democrática. Para Thanos – e a coincidência etimológica com a divindade grega da morte (Thánatos) não pode passar despercebida –, esse caráter aparentemente equitativo e justo, que permitiria salvar o universo de sua destruição, surgiria literalmente de um estalar de dedos que eliminaria metade da população do cosmos, sem nenhuma distinção reconhecível. A população – tanto de poderosos, ricos e sãos como de comuns,
pobres e doentes, todos em partes iguais – seria reduzida à metade.
Translation - Portuguese If there is a theoretical element of death that both the humanistic classical conception and its more popular version – exemplified by Marvel’s comics and movies – share is the tempting (and foolish) idea that it is the great equalizer. Let’s brush aside the classical idea that death comes to us all, as if the difference between living and surviving was not relevant. And turn our focus to the other perspective, defended by the followers of the Gaia’s avenging theory peppered with Malthusian ideals, that seems to regard pandemics and catastrophes as Earth’s defense mechanisms against those who harms it and be founded by the objective overpopulation issue. We are referencing the theory divulged in the Avengers movies by Thanos, a character inspired by the Infinity gauntlet saga in the Marvel comics, a villain and fervent servant of Death itself. To him, the imminent arrival of pandemics, wars, famish and climatic catastrophes brought by the increase of the universe’s population and the unwavering consumption of natural resources of each and every planet demands the execution of a plan in which he mistakes randomness with a supposed democratic nature. To Thanos – the ethimological coincidence of his name with the Greek deity of death (Thánatos) cannot be unnoticed –, this apparently just and fair characteristic, that would allow the salvation of the universe from its doom, would be brought by a literal finger snap that would eliminate half of the cosmos population without any discernable distinction. The population – powerful, rich, poor and sick alike – would be cut by half
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I’m a translator specialized in academic and legal texts.
Fields of expertise: Social Sciences, Philosophy and Law.
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I have a bachelor’s degree in Law and master’s degree in Business Law. I research in the fields of Law, Philosophy, Political Philosophy and Literature.
I am fluent in English and Portuguese; I have intermediate knowledge of French and can communicate in Spanish and German.
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- VIRAL CRITIQUE: BIOARZTCHY AGAINST BIOPOTENCY IN THE COVID-19 AGE, Andityas Soares de Moura Costa Matos & Francis García Collado, CounterPress, Oxford: 2022.
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