Repensando la biopolítica en el Antropoceno. Foucault, Esposito y la fisiología política de los metabolismos sociales

• Coronel Tarancón, Alberto ^[1]
  1. [1] Universidad Complutense de Madrid

     Universidad Complutense de Madrid

     Madrid, España

     
• Localización: Res Publica: revista de historia de las ideas políticas, ISSN-e 1989-6115, Vol. 26, Nº. 2, 2023 (Ejemplar dedicado a: Dossier "Pasolini, crítico de la sociedad capitalista"), págs. 183-194
• Idioma: inglés
• DOI: 10.5209/rpub.85500
• Títulos paralelos:
  • Rethinking Biopolitics in the Anthropocene. Foucault, Esposito, and the Political Physiology of Social Metabolisms
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  • español

    Michel Foucault and Roberto Esposito have been two of the most influential biopolitical thinkers of the twentieth century, but their respective approaches to the relationship between life and politics do not address the main problem of the Anthropocene: the relationship between life and energy. Thus, this article analyzes the biophysical limits of biopolitics in the works of Foucault and Roberto Esposito and, to overcome these limits, it proposes to analyze the physiological assembly of the devices of power within the energetic flows of social metabolisms. The article concludes that the physio-political approach to human societies allows us to overcome the biophysical limits of both Foucauldian biopolitics and Esposito's immunological paradigm.

  • English

    Michel Foucault y Roberto Esposito han sido dos de los pensadores biopolíticos más influyentes del siglo XX, pero sus respectivas aproximaciones a la relación entre vida y política no abordan el principal problema del Antropoceno: la relación entre la vida y la energía. Por ello, el artículo analiza los límites biofísicos de la biopolítica en los trabajos de Foucault y de Roberto Esposito. Para superar estos límites, se propone analizar el ensamblaje fisiológico de los dispositivos de poder en el interior de los flujos energéticos de los metabolismos sociales. El artículo concluye que este enfoque biofísico y biopolítico de las sociedades humanas nos permite superar los límites biofísicos tanto de la biopolítica foucaultiana como del paradigma inmunológico de Esposito

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