Biopolítica

Un análisis desde el binomio verdad y poder

Abstract

The aim for this essay is to analyze within the Michel Foucault’s perspective the historical emergence of the power technologies. It is argued that such technologies aim to the regulation of incidence, recurrence and pertinence of vital phenomena in human populations, thus originating state’s appropriation of life as space of state intervention. Emphasis is placed on the ideological mechanisms present in Western rationality in terms of ‘the truth and power binomy proposes by Foucault in order to set in perspective that the political production of truth is a complex, multiple, fragmented and no- unilateral process. It is also argued that sovereign rights, a former way of power exercise based in sovereigns’ possibility to make people die, are preserved in present time through State’s racism. Previous arguments end in the conclusion that biopolitics is an exercise of power in the opposite direction the sovereign right, is a way of making people live, a procedure to control the vital processes of populations with political and economic ends. / KEYWORDS: Biopolitics, Michel Foucault, Rationality, State, Ideology, Truth, Power.