Subjectivity and Bio-power

Subjectivity and Bio-power

Introduction

According to Agamben, the main reason is: Foucault excludes power back in the sovereign power of the original nucleus bio-power. As is known, in fact, tends to present Foucault bio-power as profoundly different from the sovereign power. Agamben believes, against, that the relationship between bio-power and sovereign power is deep, so to speak, structural the involvement of bare life in politics, he says, is the original core, even if occult, of sovereign power. O u better, we can say that the production of a bio-political body is the original performance of sovereign power.

By defining the sovereign as one who decides on the state of emergency Schmitt would allow us to understand that sovereignty is at the same time, inside and outside of the legal order, that sovereign is the one which recognizes the power to declare states of emergency and suspended, so, the validity of the legal (Nguyen 2005).

If one accepts this relational sense of power, we must also change the perspective on the constitution of the subject itself. So, first it is not an instance that owns (or not) the power (on others or on oneself), it is not constituted to dominate the object (natural or human), but itself becomes an effect of power. By ceasing to be, according to the image of power, a solid block and homogeneous, a property (of oneself), the subject has and exercises, is affected and is affecting the power, in an open configuration and a working constant adaptation, which requires it to continually reassess its identity, its goals, preferences, methods of action. The subject is itself a product of a process of subjectivation, internalizing and derivative at the same time the alliance between knowledge and power, without being reducible to it. As a derivative, the product will always be entered in the relations of power and knowledge; it will be plunged, recorded in the institutional and social. Subjectivation is never without an additional liability, in a game of freedom (aesthetics) and submission (moral, political) that draws each time (that) the subject. Foucault speaks in the will to know, a threshold of bio-logical modernity that would have been exceeded by the companies that incorporate life (the living body, the human species alive) in their own political strategies. Bio-history, bio-politics, bio-power are the terms for this book in support by the power of life itself, of bio-logical life, in its anatomical and physiological sense, somatic or metabolic (Heidegger 2007).

Sovereignty and Bare Life

Giorgio Agamben attributes to Foucault the merit of having been the first to highlight that in modernity the species and the individual as a simple living body become the issue of political strategies Society. The intersection of the Foucauldian perspective and the perspective is necessary Arendt, Agamben, to overcome difficulties and resistances the two authors to capture and identify key implications of their thoughts. Foucault, in particular, would not have seized the camp (concentration and extermination) is paradigm And place par excellence of bio-politics Arendt, by cons, would have ...