The abandonment of “Naked Lives” and the biopolitical configuration of “Sovereign Flock” in contemporary society
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.24302/prof.v6i0.2145Abstract
The article analyzes the structure and the manifestation of the biopolitics in contemporary society, regarding the mechanisms of control and selectivity of the sovereign flock with regard to the construction of safety instruments. In this context, it problematizes the assumption of biological life by the power and its effects for the division of effectively protected lives and abandoned lives. In light of this provocation, it emerges from the hypothesis, to the corroborated conclusion, that the nationalization of the biological causes the valuation of some lives to the detriment of others, which, unsuitable to normality criteria, are classified as homines sacri, excluded from the social body and included, by the relation of sovereign flock, in some field, physically or virtually established, by the applicability of emergency measures, typical of the state of exception, even within the framework of democratic states of law. The research, based on the phenomenological-hermeneutic method, is justified by the permanent existence of the subjects characterized as naked life.
Keywords: Sovereign flock. Biopolitics. State of exception. Contemporary society. Naked life.