From Bio-Machines to Bio-Politics
摘要
In this chapter, we examine Foucault’s concept of “true life” in relation to his idea of biopolitics, ultimately assessing how machinic ontology might reshape our ethical and political existence. Our primary objective is to transition from Canguilhem’s concept of the machinization of life to the idea of biopolitics, in which the social machine operates through modes of life and aesthetics of existence. Thus, our examination of Foucault will address the ethical issue of self-governance as the foundation for politics rooted in dominance and obedience, aiming to replace it with an ethics-politics grounded in social resistance. In the final section of the chapter, we will concentrate on Foucault’s concept of dispositif and Giorgio Agamben’s interpretation of it in his work “What is Apparatus?” We conclude that Foucault’s notion of dispositive, and Agamben’s reading of it, indicate an attempt to search for an account of sociality which is not structural and representational.