Biocommunism and its Role as it Overcomes Biopolitics
Biocommunism and its Role as it Overcomes Biopolitics

Summary/Abstract: Biopolitics is often understood as a form of power that is exercised over a population, not over people.Within this paradigm, a population is understood objectively as wealth, manpower, labour capacity, but also demographicallyas the object of statistical analysis. If biocommunism is to gain any political significance, if it is tobecome not only the result of the birth of biopower but also an active and actual agent of new political devices,then it must face the problem of “population empowerment.” In this process of empowerment, “power over life”is to be transformed into “the power of life itself.” In this article, the author tries to develop the idea of biocommunismaccording to which life is nothing but the fold of being onto itself. Up to now, we have thought of politicsas what subsists, thanks to the division and articulation of life, as a separation of life from itself that qualifies iton different occasions as human, animal, or vegetal. For biocommunism, life is a form generated by a multitudeof living forms.

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