MAKE DIE-LET DIE. BIO-NECROPOLITICS AND ANTAGONISM CAPITAL-LABOUR

• Main Author: Díaz, A.F (Author)
• Format: Article
• Language: English
• Published: Universitat Autonoma de Barcelona 2022
• Subjects: Biopolítica; Biopolitics; Labor; Necropolítica; Necropolitics; Trabajo; Violence; Violencia
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 Based on the context of violence in Mexico driven by the War on Drugs (20062012), and the spread of repertoires of high lethality and corporal punishment, a series of interpretations have focused their study based on the drifts of biopolitics — necropolitical and thanatopolitics. The article discusses these interpretations, proposing that the use of this conceptual framework gains heuristic capacity to understand contemporary phenomena of bare life production, if this category is understood beyond sovereignty and is linked to studies on labor and capital accumulation. The article proposes to understand biopolitics as a differentiated device according to specific historical contexts, which is crossed by the concrete forms of the capital-labor contradiction. It argues that the production of expendable lives can be understood by the precariousness of labor and the dynamics of capital accumulation, which generate profit even with death. © 2022. All Rights Reserved.