Between latinamerican postmodernism and polytheists irruptions

Abstract

In the Argentina of the democratic “spring” during the mid 1980s, readings and uses of French philosopher Michel Foucault’s proposals were spread within the political and intellectual fields announcing the extraordinary diffusion that would start in the following years. For example, among the topics of governmentality, ethics, and the constitution of subjectivities, a Foucault related to the political practice can be found in the emergent new social movements as well as in the debates concerning postmodernism. We can observe in those years how Foucault’s keywords and quotations are strongly and consistently used in the social sciences and humanities, mass media and specific practices. This article describes and analyzes some of those uses that spread among the postmodernism and the new forms of emancipatory politics.