Necropower, Necropolitics and the “Precariat”: An Approximation to the Current Brazilian Geographic/Historical Context
This essay deals with a discussion and analysis of a theme that, in the current historical period, has been emerging with considerable prominence. Therefore, we start with a small rescue of what power is, in the context of the modern Nation-State, that is, power as an entity with the capacity for “control and domination over men and things” (RAFFESTIN, 1993), that is, on a sovereign territory, with laws and norms capable of guiding both the natural zoes (the naked bodies) of the natural man, and the political bio (the man, democratically participatory and subjugated to established powers). However, this order is gradually falling apart, considering, in particular, the pro cesses of the globalist economy, bringing in its wake the exponential rise of the science workforce, the machinic world of instrumental reason, taking many zoes, naked bodies and biopolitics (AGAMBEN, 2005), to fall or be relegated to the culture of garbage, of professional non-recyclability, under an increasingly fragmented productive world; lives wasted and subject not to a culture of life, but to a policy of death in its various facets, directly or indirectly (BAUMAN, 2005).
