| Summary: | <p>Qe primary aim of this paper is to analyse<br />the limits of biopolitics (both in the strict, spatial-<br />material sense and from the historical point of view).<br />Qe discussion will focus only on the conditions of<br />giving an answear to the title question and on the<br />concept of biopolitics.<br />Qe way Foucault writes history is itself enough to<br />understand the genesis and status of biopolitics.<br />Foucault’s method – here reconstructed on the basis of<br />his lectures from the seventies – consists of a progressive<br />exposure of posisitive forces hidden behind every<br />phenomenon. Every object, every historical event is<br />constituted in a constellation of forces that function as<br />its genetic elements. Qese powers themselves are born<br />earlier, usually separately, in abstraction. If they are to<br />take shape, to be realised, they must become related.<br />At the same time, their prior abstractness becomes<br />visible only from the perspective of their *nal form.<br />A similar view on history one can *nd in Marx’s<br />writings: the historiography always consists of searching<br />for genetic elements, powers that constitute a given<br />phenomenon.<br />Foucault writes the history of realisation diUerently.<br />Qe realisation for him is a principle of transformation.<br />Qe becoming of a concrete is also the becoming of<br />biopolitics.</p>
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