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Decrecarizing life: affirmative biopolitics and dissense as tasks of a philosophy to come

  • Universidad Autonoma de Baja California
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  • Estudios Críticos Contemporáneos
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  • Universidad Católica del Maule
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Research Output:
Contribution to journal
Article
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Publication Information

Output type

Research Output:
Contribution to journal
Article
Peer-review

Original language

English

Pages from-to (Number of pages)

Pages 95-113 (19 pages)

Journal (Volume, Issue Number)

Discusiones Filosoficas (Volume 24, Issue 43)

Publication milestones

  • Published - 2023

Publication status

Published - 2023

ISSN

0124-6127

Publication IDs

  • Scopus: 85212122272

Abstract

This article aims to raise the possibility of making life less precarious through the affirmative biopolitics of Roberto Esposito and the concept of dissent by Jacques Rancière. The working hypothesis that guides our reflection points out that it is no longer enough to point out how power is exercised over life. On the contrary, today more than ever it is necessary to affirm the power of life through an affirmative biopolitics and enable dissent as new ways of thinking, saying and feeling. Finally, we think about how to transform precarious lives subsumed into survival through the power of a life that is not satisfied with defeatist discourses without any political power.