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What is the relationship between war and liberalism? Over the last two decades, an extensive and influential literature inspired by Michel Foucault's conception of biopolitics has argued that the 'war on terror' is defined by distinctly liberal forms of government. Underpinning this approach is an assumption of the primacy of contingency to the contemporary biopolitical imaginary. Through this governing cosmology, the 'war on terror' is said to be motivated by a politics of fear and uncertainty. This article contests this account of liberal war by demonstrating the biopolitical significance of potentiality. By illustrating how a specific configuration of potentiality informs contemporary governing understandings of humanity and temporality, this article argues that liberal war is also waged according to a politics of hope and certainty. Adopting a cosmological approach allows this article to develop the case for a pluriversal conception of biopolitics which better reflects the complex and contradictory character of liberal war in the 21st century. Such a perspective invites us to see how the 'war on terror' is not only a reflection of our darkest fears but also of our highest hopes. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Este artículo es una breve exposición de la formación discursiva de la biopolítica propuesta por Michel Foucault en la década de los setenta. El propósito es presentar el estatuto teórico original del concepto como una tecnología de doble faz, establecida en los siglos XVII, XVIII y XIX que interviene y establece controles regulado-res sobre la vida biológica en dos formas que no son antitéticas. La primera se centra en el cuerpo como máquina: anatomopolítica del cuerpo humano. La segunda se enfoca en el cuerpo-especie: es la biopolítica de la población. La metodología utilizada es un análisis de tipo documental que agrupó los cursos: Defender la sociedad; Seguridad, territorio y población y Nacimiento de la biopolítica, así como el libro Historia de la sexualidad 1, para conocer de manera sintética y reflexionar la idea y el sentido primigenio del término como un mecanismo de conducción de conductas individuales y colectivas.

Quando o ideal de uma vida melhor surge, há de se buscar outro lugar para ancorar a existência. É exatamente sobre isso que trata o filme Journey to Hope, do diretor Xavier Koller – um drama de uma família turca rompendo as fronteiras nacionais para tentar (re)territorializar-se em outra nação. Só ali, talvez, é possível construir um lugar com esperança. Para atingir o objetivo de um novo recomeço, é preciso transpor a fronteira entre a Itália e a Suíça. No entanto, o pequeno grupo humano enfrentará barreiras topográficas (Alpes Suíços). A pergunta que impulsiona o diálogo geográfico (ensaio) com a cinematografia é a seguinte: como a transposição das fronteiras, apresentada no filme em questão, pode levar a se pensar geografias mais humanizadas e mais sensíveis? Para tanto, utilizamos a influência da narratologia para chegarmos a percepções que abrem um universo de diálogo entre cinema e geografia.

With the aim of outlining an ontology of the present, this article follows the transformations of anthropology in Mexico in search of its political and epistemic conditions of enunciation. The Mexican government of the 19th century dedicated multiple efforts to correctly populate the territory, that is, with a healthy, educated and civilized population. At the beginning of the 20th century, indigenist policies promoted the acculturation of indigenous peoples, but this acculturation was later denounced as ethnocidal by a new generation of anthropologists, defenders of self-managed indigenism and, later, of the valorization of identities as human capital by neoliberal methodology. Scientific evolutionism gave way to a communication paradigm, the epistemic foundation of many contemporary policies. It is the very embodiment of the Foucauldian theme of the death of Man as a way of knowing, and the illustration of a new episteme. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article I propose a reading in a Foucauldian key of the so-called "Conquest of the Desert", which took place in Argentina during the 19th century, as a founding event in the formation of its nation-state and its society, and whose effects are still in vigor in the current political, economic, social and cultural scene of the country. After a brief presentation of the "Conquest of the Desert", I examine the concepts and guidelines offered by Foucauldian thought to analyze this event and its implications and consequences. Next, I outline some ideas, tools and lines of study and comprehension of the event "Conquest of the Desert" based on research works that are derived from or discuss with Foucauldian thought and that address the particularities and specificities of this event. Finally, I present a series of tentative conclusions about the ideas, tools and guidelines analyzed, weighing their scope and potential, as an epilogue to the questions raised. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

In this article, I maintain that Nazi concentrationary model was not the par excellence place of modern biopolitics but rather mainly expressed the tanatopolitical face of biopower. For this purpose, I take up Hannah Arendt's analysis, that articulate antisemitism and imperialism to explain the concentrationary phenomenon as the nucleus of Nazi totalitarianism. From her work, as well as from testimonial texts by survivors, I deduce that Nazi concentrationary mechanism attempted to reduce human life from bios to zoé, in a clear biopolitical exercise although, at the same time, by heading towards the direct and selective extermination of certain population groups, responded more to "making die and letting live", typical of sovereignty power, rather than to "making live and letting die", which characterizes biopolitics. Therefore, it had a primarily tanatopolitical dimension. Finally, I recover the possible replications and mutations of the total concentrationary phenomenon, in the presence of current biopolitical dangers. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The city of Puebla has established itself as a place prone to conservative groups, either from civil society or from the public administration. In recent years, one of the problems for these conservatives' groups has been the regulation or eradication of sex work specifically from the streets of the historic center of the city. Thus, proposals have emerged to arbitrarily and violently exclude people who perform sex work through the creation of "tolerance zones", which, beyond offering a safe space for sex workers, emerge as manifestations of social and sexual segregation that start from the obligatory nature of the heteronomy up to the biopolitical exercise of managing to a segment of the population with precarious economics situations. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article carries out a genealogy of the concept of animal-man in the field of the philosophy of technique and technique itself as a prosthesis or extension of the human body, from Oswald Spengler and José Ortega y Gasset to Arnold Gehlen and Marshall McLuhan. At the same time, since this zoological definition of the human being supposes a technical and technological anthropodicey, it analyzes the transformations of the world that it produces and of the same subject involved in this process. With which the biotechnological phenomena of late modernity are shown as an extremely problematic horizon and no longer deductible from the prosthetic lexicon. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Through a historical review of the links established between philosophy and medicine, this article examines these relations considering four aspects; a) the problem of the understanding of life elaborated by medicine and the determinism present in its scientific actions of knowledge; b) the variable of indeterminacy that human subjectivity introduces before these efforts of objectification; c) the notion of normativity elaborated by G. Canguilhem, its presence in human life and the manifestations of disease; d) the philosophical analysis of the system of norms existing in the elaborations of Canguilhem and its incidence in the statements of human life and the manifestations of disease. Canguilhem, its presence in human life and the manifestations of disease; d) the philosophical analysis of the system of norms existing in Canguilhem's elaborations and its incidence in Michel Foucault's biopolitical statements. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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En los años de fundación del Estado de Israel, numerosos niños judíos que emigraron a Israel con sus padres desde países árabes, especialmente Yemen, fueron secuestrados y desaparecieron. Algunos de estos niños fueron adoptados por personas de Europa y Estados Unidos, mientras que otros permanecieron desaparecidos. El artículo reconstruye los esfuerzos por esclarecer el destino de estos niños. La desaparición de los niños se analiza en el contexto del mito fundacional sionista y de la génesis colonial del Estado de Israel y se interpreta como una forma temprana de biopolítica con connotaciones racistas. Se presta especial atención a las consecuencias traumáticas de esta práctica para las personas afectadas y la psicoestructura de la sociedad israelí. Por último, se plantea la cuestión de cómo la joven generación actual de descendientes de inmigrantes está asumiendo la historia de sus antepasados y qué consecuencias podría tener para la futura identidad de la sociedad israelí y su posicionamiento entre “Occidente” y “Oriente”.

En general, el libro brinda una comprensión del ensayo biopolítico en Colombia a partir del paralelo que establece entre estas narrativas y lo que se discutía a nivel latinoamericano: la “biopolítica positiva” que veía en la educación, la alimentación y la salud posibilidades de “mejoramiento racial”; la defensa de la inmigración selectiva y blanca para reemplazar a ciertos grupos poblacionales; la inclusión de los grupos sociales como en Martí y Mariátegui o las soluciones eugenésicas sobre el control de la natalidad.

Este artigo estuda os mecanismos de dominação revelados nas ações ou estratégias de governos ou regimes de Estados ocidentais contemporâneos, apontados pelo filósofo italiano Giorgio Agamben. A atuação biopolítica dos Estados, aparece como tecnologia utilizada pelo poder para perenizar o estado de exceção, afetando os direitos das pessoas. Analisa-se, também, o efeito causado pela pandemia, à tese de Agamben, o que acabou por fragilizar, indispor e colocar na berlinda, encimadas por críticas, o suporte ético sobre o qual ela foi formulada. Utilizando-se do método de abordagem dedutivo, conclui-se que, embora as teses de biopolítica e estado de exceção de Agamben sejam relevantes à compreensão da realidade atual, suas aplicações no contexto da pandemia revelam-se equivocadas.

Em 2010, Maurício Lissovsky ministrou um curso de Pós-Graduação denominado “O método da redenção”. A partir de anotações e leituras sugeridas nesse curso, questiona-se a possibilidade de pensar uma ética e uma política do “instante” – termo frequentemente utilizado nas aulas para se referir à apreensão messiânica de uma temporalidade singular: o agora saturado de tensões. Para se chegar ao problema, utilizou-se o método da individuação do elemento filosófico (Entwicklungsfähigkeit) sobre o conjunto discursivo que compôs o referido curso. Conclui-se com o questionamento acerca do valor da proposição de Lissovsky frente à exigência de uma ética e uma política para os tempos atuais.

O presente artigo tem como objetivo fomentar a reflexão acerca do direito humano à saúde dos pacientes acometidos por câncer e a violação desse direito pelo sistema de gestão atual. Apresenta como problema a seguinte indagação: em que medida os pacientes oncológicos têm acesso aos cuidados paliativos, a fim de que se possa garantir a sua dignidade humana, levando em consideração o modelo de prestação estatal gratuita e igualitária de saúde para os cidadãos, constitucionalmente assegurada? Seguindo esse ideário, o método de pesquisa empregado foi hipotético-dedutivo, mediante a técnica de pesquisa bibliográfica e documental. Com base nos dados levantados, evidencia-se uma falta de oferta no sistema de saúde público brasileiro com relação aos cuidados paliativos, especialmente sob a perspectiva biopolítica. Portanto, conclui-se que o modelo de governo neoliberal tende a não investir orçamento público em demandas de pacientes que não têm valor de capital humano que retribua a contraprestação ao Estado, fazendo com que os pacientes oncológicos tenham sua dignidade humana violada.

Introducción: La intersexualidad comprende condiciones infrecuentes donde una persona nace con una anatomía sexual diferente del binario hombre-mujer; esto supone habitar un cuerpo fuera de lo inteligible y estigmatizado. Históricamente, desde la heteronorma, el modelo biomédico ha buscado normalizarles quirúrgicamente para asignar precoz y arbitrariamente un sexo-género armónico con la genitalidad. Desde los Derechos Humanos, estas prácticas son cuestionadas por colectivos Intersex. Materiales y método: Estudio de caso, entre años 2019 y 2020; técnica de entrevista en profundidad a dos usuarios adultos de los Policlínicos de Urología y Endocrinología de un hospital público en Santiago, Chile; se utilizó la fenomenología de Husserl para comprender la experiencia en el sistema de salud de las personas intersex. El análisis de la información se basó en la propuesta de Colaizzi. Resultados: Se reconocieron unidades de significado principales e imbricadas, cuyas esencias permitieron describir el fenómeno de: ser niño y habitar el espacio hospitalario, vivir con la condición actualmente, y la experiencia de utilizar el sistema de salud siendo adulto. Conclusiones: Se identificaron diversas estrategias de agencia tanto en el espacio hospitalario como el cotidiano, mediante un proceso personal y silencioso de aprendizajes sobre las implicancias de ser intersexual.

This article explores the challenges presented to bioethics by the emergence of transhumanism in the West. The exploration is approached from a genealogical research perspective. A genealogical investigation aims to question the conditions of intelligibility of transhumanism and from there analyze its impacts on the updating of a central debate in bioethics, namely: the limits to the manipulation of human life. Transhumanism, inhabiting the crisis of humanism that precedes and compels it, updates the issue of the human condition by presenting a line of argument that at least authorizes to formulate again the limit question: can we/should we go beyond the human? [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: The naming of intensive care units (ICUs) has varied over time. From intensive surveillance units, intensive care units, intensive medicine units to critical care units. In practice these denominations seem to overlap to such an extent that surveillance seems to prevail over care. Methodology: reflexive article with a hermeneutic phenomenological approach that addresses the phenomenon of daily life in the ICU in relation to spatial design, power relations and time lived in order to problematize the denomination Intensive Care Unit as opposed to Intensive Surveillance Unit. Results: the daily life of the ICU is a regulated and highly controlled space, in which the life of professionals and patients is conducted through different mechanisms to such an extent that it has characteristics of what authors such as Goffman consider total institutions. In which, through depersonalization mechanisms, the characteristic heterogeneity of the human being is homogenized. Conclusion: Caring implies to watch, to be attentive, to be on guard and to control in some cases. However, it is not reduced to this; caring also implies recognizing oneself as a finite and vulnerable being, that is, as an eminently compassionate being. Care cannot be authoritarian, nor can it undermine the capacity of agency of the subjects of care; on the contrary, it is a possibility that allows us to resist the structures and devices that control life. Caring as an instinctive and reflexive act at the same time, supposes a double nature between pathos and logos, this same nature cannot be blurred inside the ICU. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

By deconstructing some correlations between the opposition prose/poetry (also taken as a metonymy of the opposition literature/non-literature) and the opposition adult/child, we take up some bases of reflection on biopolitics to conceive childhood among the series of agents whose exclusion from the political community (along with the figures of the Orient, the woman, the savage and other beings supposedly devoid of speech, of logos) paradoxically reinvests them with force and political interest, either as objects of an expansion of the established regimes of visibility and control, or as possible instigators of other modes of action, which require rethinking what agency and politics mean. Thus, through an analysis of Haroldo de Campos' transcreation of Heraclitus' fragment 52 on the child and João Luiz Guimarães' book Sagatrissuinorama, we seek to outline some consequences of this intricate contemporary phenomenon of the politicization of childhood for the teaching of literatu. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This paper deals with the reception of the Foucauldian notion of governmentality in Roberto Esposito's thought by taking into account the Italian translation of Foucault's lectures of 1977 and 1978 at the Collège de France. First, the different contexts of reception of these lectures are presented, in particular the Anglo-Saxon studies of governmentality and the crisis of Italian Marxism in the late 1970s. Secondly, Foucault's position in his courses of these years is analyzed from the perspective of the opposition between Machiavellianism and anti-Machiavellianism, precisely in view of the Italian reception. Finally, this paper analyses the reception of the notion of governmentality by Roberto Esposito in his 1980 work La politica e la storia. The paper shows the importance of this early reception of Foucault's lessons regarding the formation of the Italian biopolitical current and its specificities. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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Este artículo pretende articular una relación entre la captación financiera de nuestra riqueza inmaterial y las nuevas y poderosas relaciones entre imágenes y cuerpos que han emergido de la ola global de revueltas sociales que comenzó en enero de 2011. Sugiere la introducción de la noción de "bioimagen", a partir de la noción de Marx de "general intellect" y siguiendo las sugerencias de la filosofía política postoperaista. Se centra en la hipótesis de un cambio desde la infinita reproductibilildad técnica de imágenes a su infinita reproductibilidad biológica. A través y más allá de las tecnobiológicas y la autopoiesis biovisual del capital mismo, las imágenes biopolíticas transformarn los cuerpos y tienen la capacidad de revelar la revolución.

El presente trabajo se trata de una reseña del libro "Biopolítica del armario" de Javier Sáez.

O estudo tem por objetivo compreender a relação entre política criminal atuarial e biopolítica como instrumentos de segregação e neutralização de determinados grupos sociais, os quais, a partir de prognósticos atuariais, são tidos como grupos de risco. Buscou-se analisar em que consiste e como se dá a política atuarial e os mecanismos de controle da biopolítica. Mediante metodologia analítica e interpretativa, foi possível identificar os efeitos do gerencialismo, sua influência no controle social articulado pelo biopoder e, por fim, verificar que a política atuarial se dá como instrumentalização dos mecanismos da biopolítica para uma higienização social.

RESUMO A ordem assumida na construção da Encyclopédie de Diderot e D’Alembert supõe um modelo normativo epistêmico que não apenas condiciona a formação do cânone como horizonte de referencialidade, mas, simultaneamente, produz um modo de administração político da vida, com consequências significativas para a relação entre o discurso canônico e a biopolítica iluministas. O artigo propõe uma análise desse duplo dispositivo normatizador, com seus impasses e estratégias complexas de enunciação, por meio da investigação dos nexos de continuidade entre a epistemologia da matemática desenvolvida por D’Alembert e sua polêmica posição em relação à inoculação, o tratamento preventivo contra a varíola disponível no século XVIII.

Destacamos neste artigo a dificuldade da reflexão crítica sobre o pensamento Agambeniano com referência àquilo que o próprio autor usou como objeto paradigmático de exemplificação, concretização e conclusão de seus conceitos que desde há muito vêm sendo construídos e que não havia sido ainda emoldurado numa expressão prática expressiva e contemporânea em significação. Assim, nosso objetivo aqui consiste em oferecer elemento que integre, sob a ótica dos Direitos Humanos, a discussão acerca da pertinência e principalmente da materialização do pensamento Agabemniano. Desta forma procedemos a uma revisão bibliográfica das obras de Giogio Agamben destacando seus principais conceitos e procuramos estabelecer, diante das argumentações de José Augusto Lindgren Alves, em seu artigo O contrário dos direitos humanos (explicitando Zizek) (2002), a possibilidade de entender a materialização da contradição da engrenagem dos Direitos Humanos. Desta forma, justifica-se na necessidade da desmistificação de que a obra Agambeniana é de difícil interpretação e, principalmente, que não dá margem a significação prática dos seus próprios preceitos e de demonstrar que, se tal cenário ocorre, deve-se às chamadas leituras apressadas que procuram a todo custo essa materialização conceitual naquilo que é incompatível com esses próprios conceitos biopolíticos. O resultado é a correspondência entre as verificações práticas de José Augusto Lindgren Alves e o arcabouço teórico de Giorgio Agamben, na perspectiva do oposto dos preceitos dos Direitos Humanos, justamente em nome – e na sistemática, ou no sistema – destes mesmos direitos, principalmente a nível de Direito Internacional dos Direitos Humanos, bem como nas perspectivas a nível doméstico estatal.

Tomando como punto de partida la inclinación hacia la marginalidad como rasgo saliente de la obra narrativa de la escritora mexicana Guadalupe Nettel, este trabajo elige enfocarse en el estudio de los textos, temas y problemas desatendidos por la crítica y que ocupan un lugar marginal dentro del corpus de la autora. Mediante una lectura estrábica y con una mirada háptica, me concentro en la narrativa breve y desplazo el dominio de la mirada y el ojo por el del tacto y la piel. Con este cambio de enfoque me propongo leer los relatos «Ptosis», «Hongos» y «La impronta» con el fin de desentrañar los modos en que Nettel desarregla los ordenamientos biopolíticos de los cuerpos y despliega unas contra-pedagogías de la crueldad.

La novela Jenisjoplin (2017), de Uxue Alberdi, se adscribe a las narrativas del VIH/sida. Destaca y se diferencia significativamente de las tendencias predominantes por su enfoque literario en el abordaje del cuerpo afectado. En ella la vivencia de la enfermedad se articula a través de la resistencia y el conflicto, tanto con el propio cuerpo como con la biopolítica, encarnada por la disciplina médica. Con el propósito de examinar las connotaciones del cuerpo y la enfermedad en la narración, este análisis se realiza desde la teoría de los afectos y los estudios del cuerpo.

El propósito de esta investigación es analizar los diversos elementos temáticos y discursivos por los cuales la novela Iménez de Luis Noriega puede ser considerada una demodistopía. Para ello, se reconocen las cuatro coordenadas del sistema de significación de toda demodistopía: demografía, biopolítica, ciencia ficción y distopía, las cuales funcionan como sinergias presentes en la arquitectura de su sentido y como espacios de realización hermenéutica. En la segunda parte, se desarrolla la caracterización de dichos componentes en la diégesis novelesca: fenómeno demográfico generador del conflicto argumental (superpoblación); totalitarismo y usos desviados de la biopolítica mediante métodos coercitivos de manipulación y dominación (el sistema de privilegios); novum (la Cúpula); pérdida de la libertad (condicionamiento y predestinación); y alienación identitaria del protagonista (detrimento del yo).

La ciudad de Puebla se ha consagrado como un lugar proclive a grupos conservadores, ya sea desde la sociedad civil o desde la administración pública. En los últimos años, una de las problemáticas para dichos grupos ha sido la regulación o erradicación del trabajo sexual, específicamente de las calles del centro histórico de la angelópolis. Así, han surgido propuestas para excluir de forma arbitraria y violenta a las personas que ejercen el trabajo sexual a través de la creación de “zonas de tolerancia”, las cuales más allá de ofrecer un espacio seguro para las trabajadoras sexuales, emergen como manifestaciones de segregación social y sexual que parten de la obligatoriedad de la heteronormatividad hasta el ejercicio biopolítico de administrar a un segmento de la población a través de situaciones económicas precarias.

En el presente trabajo abordo El Petiso Orejudo, texto publicado por María Moreno en 1994 y reeditado en el año 2021. Me interesa leer cómo, desde la polifonía, la novela cuestiona y resignifica “verdades” consolidadas en torno a la figura de Cayetano Santos Godino. Observo que en este texto la polifonía se logra a partir de múltiples procedimientos, entre los que destaco la introducción de fragmentos de discursos no literarios, la estilización y la ironía verbal. A partir de la narración de los hechos ocurridos en torno al infanticida Cayetano Santos Godino, el texto de María Moreno visibiliza, interroga y problematiza las prácticas y discursos mediante los que la eugenesia se instaló en Argentina en la primera década del siglo XX.

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The biopolitical control of the asylum seeker in the eu carried out by three legal mechanisms is analyzed: Frontex, Eurodac and the Dublin Regulation, and the resistance practices of immigrants to this control. Methodologically, a theoretical documentary review on biopolitics and a survey of 1 478 asylum seekers in Spain between 2021 and 2023 was implemented. It is concluded that this population brings together the elements that characterize Homo sacer and that, in response to this, they desecrate the control devices, generating a form-of-life in a community that extrapolates its own rules to the Law, as Agamben proposes. However, it is shown that this extralegal life is transitory and, therefore, does not coincide with the Agambenian ideal of the highest poverty but reveals its practical difficulties. The basis of an ethic of action adjusted to the reality of the immigrant are proposed, which goes beyond the Agambenian form-of-life. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The purpose of this research is to analyze the various thematic and discursive elements by which Luis Noriega’s novel Iménez can be considered a demodystopia. To this end, the four coordinates of the system of signification of any demodystopia are first recognized: demography, biopolitics, science fiction and dystopia, which function as synergies present in the architecture of its meaning and as spaces of hermeneutic realization. In the second part, the characterization of these components in the novel diegesis is developed: demographic phenomenon generating the plot conflict (overpopulation), totalitarianism and deviant uses of biopolitics through coercive methods of manipulation and domination (the system of privileges), novum (the Dome), loss of freedom (conditioning and predestination) and identity alienation of the protagonist (detriment of the self). [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article presents a historical perspective analysis of the Law of January 24, 1941, for the protection of natality against abortion and anti-contraception propaganda. It starts from the premise that while abortion has been considered a criminal act in penal legislation since the onset of the modern era, this consideration has also been contingent upon each historical period. Through the exegesis of both penal texts and expert discourses (medical and legal), this article argues that the Francoist regulation represented the zenith of legal punishment for voluntary termination of pregnancy. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

This article aims to promote reflection on the human right to health of cancer patients and the violation of this right by the current management system. It presents as a problem the following question: to what extent cancer patients have access to palliative care, so that their human dignity can be guaranteed, taking into account the model of free and egalitarian state provision of health for citizens, constitutionally guaranteed? Following this ideal, the research method used was hypothetical-deductive, through the technique of bibliographic and documental research. Based on the data collected, there is evidence of a lack of supply in the Brazilian public health system in relation to palliative care, especially from a biopolitical perspective. Therefore, it is concluded that the neoliberal government model tends not to invest public budget in the demands of patients who do not have the value of human capital that repays the State, causing cancer patients to have their human dignity violated. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The nexus between biopolitics and sovereignty is of central importance in Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben, who have a distinct but complementary understanding of such concepts. The relationship between these ideas in the light of the 50 years since publication of The Punitive Society is addressed in some of its points of contact, distance and complementarity. The interactions between sovereign power and human life point to a necessary critical look at how governments have captured life as a manageable resource but also subject to inclusion and exclusion through sovereign power, in the figure of homo sacer. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

The article proposes an analysis of drug policy in Brazil in light of Michel Foucault's biopolitical theories. The analysis chooses two aspects of Foucauldian genealogy that are central to understanding the relationship between the war on drugs, racism and mass incarceration: the coextensiveness between war and politics and racism as a population selective device. We understand, however, that Foucault's perspective is not sufficient for a genealogy of power relations applied to Brazil. It is necessary to adopt a decolonial style critique. In this sense, we invoke the notion of necropolitics, by Achille Mbembe, which we think is more appropriate to the framework of biopolitics produced in our country. With regard to drug policy, we will study the case of marijuana in Brazil. Our main objective is to reveal the interests of Brazilian prohibitionism, understanding the war on drugs as a political failure that, however, proves to be successful in the general framework of Brazil's historical project. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Introduction: Intersexuality includes extremely rare conditions where a person is born with a sexual anatomy different from the male-female binary; this supposes inhabiting a body outside the intelligible, configuring a stigma. Historically and from the heteronorm, the biomedical model has sought to surgically normalize them in order to precociously and arbitrarily assign a gender in harmony with genitality. From Human Rights, these practices have been questioned by Intersex groups. Materials and method: During the years 2019 and 2020, case studies were carried out through in-depth interviews with two adult users of the Urology and Endocrinology Polyclinics of a public hospital at Santiago, Chile; Husserl's phenomenology was used to visualize the phenomenon according to how it is experienced by the subjects who carry it, using the procedure described by Colaizzi as an information analysis plan. Results: Main and overlapping units of meaning were recognized, whose essences allowed describing the phenomenon of: being a child and inhabiting the hospital space, currently living with the condition, and the experience of using the health system as an adult, with new and own meanings. Conclusions: Various agency strategies were identified both in the hospital space and in everyday life, through a personal and silent process of learning about the implications of being intersex. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

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