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Reprodukcija bio-moći
Reproduction of Biopower

Author(s): Ankica Čakardić
Subject(s): Political Philosophy, Governance, Politics and communication, Theory of Communication
Published by: Филозофски факултет, Универзитет у Новом Саду
Keywords: biopower; biopolitics; Foucault; Hardt and Negri; (neo)liberalism; reproduction; communication;

Summary/Abstract: This paper addresses the threefold conclusion: a) biopolitical nature of existing order in form of “government without government” develops its own systematical meaning based on reproduction of everyday life: communication and creating relations out of it, b) order, under which man is submerged, is fictionally organized and based exclusively on the interpretations of what the “need” for object is and what is not, c) bio-power is a form of power which organizes social life from within, it achieves full efficiency when it is completely inherent, integrated as a life function which every individual accepts and reactivates through his/her own reproduction. In order to give consistent argumentation for this threefold conclusion, this paper will investigate the suppositions of neoliberalism which is based on biopolitical reproduction (i) and language systems and communications which cancel the classical notion of political subject (ii)

  • Issue Year: 2008
  • Issue No: 10
  • Page Range: 77-92
  • Page Count: 16
  • Language: Croatian