‘One Must not Die to Don’t Kill’: the War Machine

Abstract

This paper discusses health promotion and the production of ways to work in the present, especially under the scope of public education in times of neoliberal policies’ intensification. The capitalist machine produces illness throughout work processes, nevertheless we assert that something always gets away and overflows, as production norms, setting resistances that operate what we denominate the war machine. Throughout the research, carried out with municipal public teachers, we propose the understanding that this machine is built of these resistances, by means of which people create coping mechanisms for work controversies, inventing new life norms and expanding health power in/by the craft.