God's bureaucrat priest, teachers of the state

the kingdom and glory of Giorgio Agamben

Abstract

This papper seeks to think about a possible articulation between the archeology of glory thought by Agamben in his longitudinal project of the historical constitution of Homo Sacer, with the action of biopolitics implicit in the bureaucratization of educational processes that weigh on the current school context. Making use of the problematization of the device of glory as a bipolar machine of strategic management, we ask ourselves, on the one hand, about the conditions of possibilities for an emergence of messianism and, on the other hand, the resistance to bureaucratism in the school as practices of insurrection and deactivation of power devices. The first moment of the text is dedicated to trying to understand the relations between Agamben's archaeological method and the bureaucratic evocation of the trinity as a device of capture and governmentality. The second moment is dedicated to the relationship between messianism and the end of times from the idea of homo sacer and the propagated pedagogical innovations of entrepreneurship, in the anti-bureaucratic attacks on education as a performative framework of insurrectionary life. Our final considerations are dedicated to exploring the possible tensions and deactivations of power and governmentality devices in the reflections proposed by Agamben, with a view to bureaucratism and entrepreneurship in school pedagogies.

Key words: Giorgio Agamben; Homo sacer; bureaucracy; school pedagogy.