A Contrução Discursiva de Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva no Canal de Podcast Podpah

Abstract

This research analyzes the discursive strategies present in the construction that the subject Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva makes of himself in the interview granted to the podcast channel Podpah in December 2021. Podpah consolidates itself as a widely-reaching vehicle aimed at the young audience, which innovated by interviewing the politician in a pre-election period, achieving significant repercussions. In light of this, the present research seeks to discuss the discursive functioning of statements centered on self-writing, as well as the social and political role of digital sound platforms in the circulation of political discourse; nonetheless, it reflects on this materiality. The study arises from the need to explore political discourses and how power tools are exercised within the current Brazilian social context, marked by digitalization. Through this analytical gesture, theoretically and methodologically supported by Foucauldian Discourse Studies, four predominant discursive regularities were observed in the self-writing of the subject Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva: "I as a remembrancer," "I as a Statesman," "I and the others," and "I as a protester." Through the theoretical and methodological apparatus, it is observed how the statements establish themselves in power relations, in the construction of regimes of truth and production of meanings. Thus, it was possible to identify the constitution of strategies aimed at class identification, collectivity and the exercise of power, comparison between subjects, and questioning of reality.