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This text constitutes a reflection from Michel Foucault’s notion of biopolitics, beginning from the genealogical writings of the author in which he raises the development of social medicine and society’s medicalization processes to make a contrast with the social and political situation caused by the Covid-19 pandemic worldwide. The aim of the writing is to propose a critical look at the biopower exercise which is justified from fear and what it causes as a social teaching. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This text examines from the hermeneutic method the lack of protection and exclusion of a certain part of the population by the modern State as a response to the mechanisms of preservation and satisfaction of another part of this human existence, manifesting itself as the reverse and the obverse of the management of organic life by political power, a situation that some authors have called biopolitics. The objective is to distinguish the mechanisms that lead to considering a certain part of the population expendable and therefore excusable, as well as the devices tending to their rejection, lack of protection, and elimination. The conclusions of these reflections will be approached from the migratory phenomenon, as a population group that personifies these expendable lives in modernity. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

From a feminist literary studies perspective, in dialogue with the notions of biopolitics and biopower proposed by Michel Foucault (and later expanded by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri) this work presents a reading of La familia del Comendador (1860), by Juana Paula Manso, as a means to problematize the critical tradition regarding Latin American modernity. By shedding light on the ideological tensions that emerge between biopowers (forms of control) and biopolitics (forms of resistance) through the passages walked by the characters, this text reveals how Manso envisioned an ideal of a liberal modernity-capitalism (in terms of gender, race, and economy) for the region. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

With Adriana Petryna book: Exposed Life: Biological Citizens after Chernobyl, biopolitical studies took a different course, accepting a new manifestation in the exercise of biopower: biocitizenship or biological citizenship. Based on the analysis carried out by the author of the tragedy that occurred in Chernobyl, a series of citizen demands arose that called into question the role of the State, the market, the institutions and the political practices of social control. In this new theoretical horizon, the category of biocitizenship is analyzed, without losing sight of its origins in biopolitical studies, bringing this idea closer to theoretical conceptualizations typical of Latin American critical thought. For this reason, this papers is oriented towards the consolidation of anti-hegemonic and anti-systemic identities that guide citizen praxis towards intercultural citizenship. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The Latin American literature of the last thirty years is crossed by displacement of bodies through plots that do not have the stability of the social and cultural borders that shape the nation-state. In a society where the ideal of well-being, happiness and longevity acquires a political status, Rodolfo Fogwill's latest novel, La introducción (2016) constitutes a formal inquiry into the new spatializations of culture and new mechanisms of subjectivation and control that emerge in the novel of our turn of the century as indexes of transformations of power and forms of exploitation without which 24/7 capitalism could not function. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

It's usual to think Foucault as a power theorist. This statement is partial and imprecise. In many texts from the early eighties he affirmed that subjectivity was the main problem in all his thought. The objective of this text is to show in what sense the analysis of the construction of subjectivity led Foucault to design various methodological strategies related to language that continue enabling political, social and cultural analyzes that, by distancing themselves so much from positive truths as well as the most classic analyzes, continue offering possibilities not only for complex, plural and non-linear theoretical analyzes, but, above all, for possible intervention and revolt. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The first section of the article shows the importance of the body in political practice by addressing the life-politics antinomy, which leads to the configuration of the modern State. Here, the individual body undergoes suffering and pain as a result of that context's political logic, whose strategies are consolidated through the techniques of power known as anatomo-politics and biopolitics. It then carries out a reflection on pain as a neoliberal practice of political domination of the subject's corporeality through the logic of making live, in the context of the exercise of normalization. The latter is achieved through hierarchical surveillance and normalizing sanctions, which, as opposed to Marx, Foucault situates in the microphysics of power rather than in the State. We conclude that it is important to rethink anatomo-politics as a fundamental aspect of politics and of the subjects hat constitute it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this paper, a clear analysis is carried out to identify how biopower and biopolitics affect the Colombian penitentiary system, bringing as a case of study the District Prison for Men and Women's Annex, as a positive example in a devastating scenario of violation of minimum conditions of survival of the human being deprived of freedom under special relationship of subjection before the State. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article searches for respond to the question whether biopolitic's objective (to manage life and construct lifestyles) and necropolitic's objective (to administrate death and destroy habitats and peoples), polarized, make both concepts opposites, or on the contrary, if they indicate a dialectical relationship and mutual construction in phenomena such as migration. To answer the question, the article first examines biopolitics in the work of Michel Foucault and seeks how it has been taken up in the analysis of contemporary migration. The paper then describes necropolitics in the work of Achille Mbembe, and how it has been taken up to identify the causes of forced migration and racism against migrants. Finally, it reviews the literature on biopolitical and necropolitical studies in the context of international migration. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents an archaeological analysis of some of the discourses and practices that played a decisive role in the effectuation of the Conquest of America and the establishment of a political order based on a racial prejudice and domination. A political order that was, in consequence, extremely exclusionary and violent. This research is based (i) on the concepts of biopolitics and anthropological machine created by Giorgio Agamben, as well as on the relationship that exists between them and the communities founded on identitarian principles; (ii) the researches of post-colonial philosophers; and (iii) Carl Schmit's writings on International Law. The analysis of the Aristotelian-Thomistic conception of the human being, the geographical division of the World created from Europe, and the political treaties concluded between the emerging European States during fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, allow proposing the Conquest of America as a paradigmatic case of this form of power that has characterized Western politics: biopolitics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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The following article aims to become aware of some of the inquiries emerging from the so-called decolonial perspective regarding the scope of the notion of biopolitics utilized by the French philosopher, Michel Foucault, in the context of his analysis of the phenomena of colonialism and racism within modern European States. In this line, the authors propose to address the way that biopolitical government technologies are inseparable from a colonial dimension that will be reflected starting in the 19th century, with the role of Darwinism and eugenics in controlling the life of populations, both within and outside of Europe. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Within the spectrum of biopolitics, Giorgio Agamben has gained notoriety for the sharpness of his approach. In the text, we analyze the presence of separation in the bio-political character of the legal and political machinery as it has been analyzed by Giorgio Agamben in both The sovereign power and bare life and Exception status. If "bare life" is a life-side-nothing on the threshold of the exception and that has been separated from any legal or political status; if the separation is based on the baneful symmetry in the sovereign and the sacer are on the legal-political order; and if the field emerges as "hidden matrix" of political space of contemporary democracies from the growing separation between birth principle and the nation-state democracies, this can only mean that the separation plays a crucial role in the bio-political operation of Western legal and political machine. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to show part of the results of an investigation dedicated to follow the course of the experience of the trans collective in Argentina from the recovery of democracy after the last civil-military dictatorship (1983). For this purpose, we work on the basis of testimonies and documents prepared by the community itself to study the processes of subjectivation given, together with the deviations that occur in them, to finally find the political strategies hatched within the collective. In this way, we intend to follow the trail of trans people from the signs that they decided to leave in tune with the struggles traced by them. Particularly, here we will deal with two processes established in a large part of the trans-life experiences: the expulsion of these bodies from the anatomopolitical devices and the biopolitical regulations, on the one hand, and the modes of subjectivation in the brothel and carnivalesque sphere on the other. Both paths will be thematized in two instances: the first one collects the data and testimonies, the second one deals with the critical-philosophical problematization of such data and testimonies. The analysis in this second path is sustained revisiting the formulations made by Michel Foucault around the sexuality device, the biopolitics and the forms of resistance and gathering in some of the fundamental contributions of the postfeminist theories (queer) together with Judith Butler and Paul B. Preciado. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Taking as a starting point the hunting metaphor of power as an act that grasp preys, this paper aims to think and develop the concept of capture. In order to do that the theoretical basis of this concept is offered in terms of a dispositive that structures the ordering of the social to appropriate spaces and bodies producing, as a consequence, an exposure to death. Within this theoretical field it will be emphasized the political logic of exceptionality that articulates the process of capture and, likewise, it will be shown the way geography of capture can be analyzed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The poetry of the Peruvian poet Antonio Cisneros (1942-2012) is notable for its many animal figures. In this article, I intend to read these animal and insects figures through the lens of biopolitical theories and animal studies. My reading is based on two premises. In the first, Cisneros uses animals to make a social and political criticism, and also as a way to imagine another type of political community. In the second, Cisneros has his animals take a bodily presence to point out the blurring spatial boundaries between animals and humans. The notion of immunity produced by Esposito helps explain how these boundaries between species are maintained. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, I analyze the television series The Handmaid’s Tale—created by Bruce Miller and based on the novel by Margaret Atwood—to show its critical power in the narratives of progress to warn on the fragility of our democracies and—as Giorgio Agamben argues—their contiguity with totalitarianisms. However, I also examine the way the third season seems to tone down the aforementioned criticisms through the development of what Fredric Jameson calls nostalgia for the present. Likewise, following Mariela Solana, I explore the political meanings of hope and nostalgia as affects whose meanings cannot be established a priori. Finally, I argue that in the series there is a strange, perverse coexistence of two ways of understanding nostalgia that explode the dichotomy between desires which, according to Sara Ahmed, redirect us towards social forms in which hopes and desires for radical change have already been placed. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In the present text we propose an analysis of the reception of Foucault's thought in the academic discussion regarding the drug problem in Chile. We systematized a series of articles that make up a genealogical-archaeological approach to the problem. We highlight the biopolitical horizon that introduces alcoholics, drug addicts and traffickers as threats to correct and control, and the securitization of the phenomenon in terms of risk. Then, we discuss studies that use Foucault's notions to illuminate drug trafficking, consumer stigmatization, and representations of interventors. Finally, we offer a balance of the reception of this discussion and we point out challenges to enrich it. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to approach Michel Foucault's analytics of power from the point of view of his methodological elaboration, focused on his critique of the philosophical-legal discourse of modern thought. It exposes the displacements that the author carries out from the analyses of La volonté de savoir (1976), to show how the analytics of sexuality constitutes itself as the paradigm of Foucault's analytics of power. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims at defining what we understand by a gay cultural subjectivity, and endeavours to apply this concept to the experience that an effeminate protohomosexual child experiences when building his own subjectivity which starts from the difference. In other words, we mean a subjectivity that inscribes him in a marginal alterity. Next, the article reviews the manner in which this theoretical view has crystallized in the work of some Latin American authors towards the figure of the "loca", to focus more specifically on the character of Toto, Manuel Puig's autofictional mask in The Betrayal of Rita Hayworth (1968). We conclude by proposing, from the queer Utopia, a path able to deactivate what Michel Foucault calls "disciplination of bodies" imposed by biopolitics. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article represents an effort to think recurrent problems in international relations in the context of globalization, from the perspective of concepts developed by Foucault, such as governmentality, biopolitics and dispositive. We present the central conceptions of Foucault in the field of international relations, trying to understand the importance that they have in the discourse analysis concerning failed states. This work represents an advance in the comprehension of problems that can be analyzed from a foucauldian perspective. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]