Editorial

Abstract

The concept of “biopolíticas”, derived from the work of Michel Foucault, has been grounded in contemporary thinking and associated with sociopolitical practices that establish a line of demarcation between life and death, and it also deals with the parameters within which life itself develops. This concept has been taken and further developed by influential scholars and contemporary thinkers including Antonio Negri y Michael Hardt, Roberto Esposito, Giorgio Agamben, Rosi Braidotti, Judith Butler, Nikolas Rose and Ed Cohen. Digital technology intercept’s these parameters and collaborates in redefining forms of life, and hence, of death. This issue seeks the interpelation of new forms of control and resistance. Moreover, we seek to deal in depth with the topic of how technological systems are intertwined in such relationships as life/death, feminine/masculine, health/pathology, as well as a wide variety of racial and sexual categories that have a problematic coexistence in the contemporary world. It also addresses the expression of these topics across a multiplicity of socioeconomic, political and cultural and technoscientific practices.