La biopolítica: la ambivalencia de un concepto polisémico

Abstract

Biopolitics today has acquired a capital importance in the research field because it has become a key topic to understand our world today and, therefore, 'public affairs'. A few years ago, it was a exclusive term, limited to scholars. Today more and more areas of knowledge have to use its analytical tools to provide a holistic view of social phenomenon. There will, no doubt, an increasing hybridization between humanistic and technological knowledges and one of its connecting links will biopolitics.

This article presents two joints: an initial retrospective about the advances contributed by several authors in the field and the concept of biopolitics and, subsequently, the proposal for a greater deepening of an existing way in biopolitics, but under prospectivist parameters: the interface between this one and the (super-) economic structure, especially in crisis situations, and to foster new social processes, reducing tensions.

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