Rethinking Biopolitics in the Anthropocene. Foucault, Esposito, and the Political Physiology of Social Metabolisms

  • Alberto Coronel Tarancón Universidad Complutense de Madrid
Palabras clave: biopolitics, Anthropocene, Foucault, Esposito, Social metabolism
Agencias: Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas, Universidad Complutense de Madrid

Resumen

Michel Foucault and Roberto Esposito have been two of the most influential biopolitical thinkers of the twentieth century, but their respective approaches to the relationship between life and politics do not address the main problem of the Anthropocene: the relationship between life and energy. Thus, this article analyzes the biophysical limits of biopolitics in the works of Foucault and Roberto Esposito and, to overcome these limits, it proposes to analyze the physiological assembly of the devices of power within the energetic flows of social metabolisms. The article concludes that the physio-political approach to human societies allows us to overcome the biophysical limits of both Foucauldian biopolitics and Esposito's immunological paradigm.

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2023-07-21
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Coronel Tarancón A. (2023). Rethinking Biopolitics in the Anthropocene. Foucault, Esposito, and the Political Physiology of Social Metabolisms. Res Publica. Revista de Historia de las Ideas Políticas, 26(2), 183-194. https://doi.org/10.5209/rpub.85500