La inoperatividad de la máquina antropológica
Keywords:
Biopolitics, anthropological machine, form of life, unsavable life, Agamben.
Abstract
I intend to examine in this article the relationship that Giorgio Agamben establishes between biopolitics and the anthropological machine, in order to suggest that the inclusion of life through law and its consequent domination by the logic of sovereignty can be counterbalanced by the connection between a life that cannot be saved and that which the Italian author calls “form of life”. The unsavable life, that has as a supreme figure a human nature that rests perfectly inoperative, and the form of life, which resisting to right makes life and rule undistinguishable, are the key elements to counteract the ontology of operability that, for Agamben, dominates politics in the West.Downloads
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2015-01-26
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Paredes Goicochea D. (2015). La inoperatividad de la máquina antropológica. Res Publica. Revista de Historia de las Ideas Políticas, 28, 195-209. https://revistas.ucm.es/index.php/RPUB/article/view/47881
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