Michel Foucault: Rođenje biopolitike: Michel Foucault: The Birth of Biopolitics
Abstract
Članak pokušava detektirati inicijalno pojavljivanje termina »biopolitika«. Termin, danas najčešće vezan uz filozofsku poziciju Giorgia Agambena , svoj prvi iskaz dobiva kod Michela Foucaulta. Njegova dijagnoza u sedamdesetim godina prošlog stoljeća bila je da je moć znanstveno-tehnologijske proizvodnje života stvarila razdoblje biopolitike. Biopolitika je za Foucaulta ulazak života i njegovih mehanizama u područje svjesnog računanja i reguliranja moći, odnosno znanja svih agenata promjene ljudskog života. Stanovništvo postaje predmetom političkih intervencija već od kraja 18. i početka 19. stoljeća. U savezu sa standardnim institucijama disciplinarnog poretka – ekonomija, politika, vojska – konstantni je sklop biopolitike stanovništvo. S obzirom na kategoriju života kao matricu društvenosti, ovdje se utemeljuje ono što će kasnije formirati »biopolitička teorija«.The article tries to detect the initial appearance of the concept of “biopolitics”. This concept, nowadays usually linked with philosophical position of Giorgio Agamben , first came to an attention by Michel Foucault. His diagnosis in the seventies of the past century was that the power of the scientific-technological production of life created a period of biopolitics. For Foucault, biopolitics is the entrance of life and its mechanisms into the area of conscious calculation and regulation of power that is the knowledge of all the agents of change in a person’s life. The population becomes the subject of political interventions already by the end of the 18th and beginning of the 19th century. In alliance with the standard institutions of the disciplinary order – economics, politics, and the military – the constant framework of biopolitics is the population. With regards to the category of life as the matrix of sociability, here we have the foundation of what is later to be formed into "biopolitical theory"