ANOTHER SUBJECT BEYOND THE BORDER:
A CRITICAL ESSAY ON SOVEREIGNTY IN AGAMBEN FROM THE PERSPECTIVE OF TERRITORY
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https://doi.org/10.7443/problemata.v16i2.68456Keywords:
Sovereignty, bare life, territory, colonization, productionAbstract
The Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben, based on the notion of bare life, explores a certain juridical condition that underlies sovereignty, in which a subject can be taken at the simultaneously as citizen and in state of nature, by the biopolitical maintenance of society. This analysis seems to leave several gaps open when, in the quest to understand a general factor in the constitution of state jurisprudence, it overlooks issues such as: the control of territory as a productive space, the epistemic and ethical domain between the self and the other, the modes of production that constitute power and the racial criteria in exclusion-inclusion practices in state law. On this basis, this study sets out to work on the gaps in Agamben's analysis, seeking to bring to the foreground the themes accused of being neglected in his work, based on reflections by Achille Mbembe, Donatella Di Césare and Enrique Dussel. It was concluded that Agamben's claim that the practices of government have changed their object from territory to population through biopolitics proves to be fragile, insofar as territory provides the material conditions for the biopolitical maintenance of bodies, and its resources are the objects of government by nation states.
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