Sujeción y poder en el posthumanismo

Abstract

Through some news about technological devices for controlling and monitoring introduced in different areas of daily life, we analize what could be the current regimes of power and subject to which we are engaged as citizens. Taking into account the centrality acquired by technologies of information and communication, we propose that the problem of subjects and power relations which dealt with disciplinary societies and was materialized in the panopticon and the consequent production of individuals, is being replaced by a new equation: the production of dividuals by means of what we call as assembling surfaces. The element that allows us to argue this conceptual shift is, precisely, a microchip and the management of the information that is generated from its insertion into the arm of any citizen. After this initial diagnosis about the current ways of government we’ll go into new forms of sociality that emerge from the continued and open control of our paths in depth. The emergence of what we call extitutions will allow us to talk about the new logic of power and their spaces. They are characterized by a government of life established in the technological processing of circulating information about our actions, and, of course, about ourselves. In conclusion, we wonder about what may be the collective political actions that can be able to subvert the dominant logic of government in a post-humanist context where the centrality of “human” has been replaced by a political, ethical and epistemic technocracy.