BODY, NAKED LIFE AND SURVIVAL FROM GIORGIO AGAMBEN
The present dissertation investigates how bare life is reinserted in contemporaneity and how it contributes to the analysis of the relations of calculation and survival of bodies. Using the railway crossing of millions of workers who move daily between the periphery ant the center of the city of São Paulo, the research reviews the concept of naked life in Giorgio Agamben, especially within his philosophical project Homo Sacer, relating it to o to what the author designates as a contemporary biopolitical paradigm, that is, to the concentration camps and the permanent state of exception, which spreads through the complex societies of the beginning of this 21st century. The hypothesis is that, if the body-machine is produced in the disciplinary anatomo-political context and the body-species in the context of biopolitics, then a new type of body is required in the context in which both technologies intersect. Indeed, in this zone of non-differentiation where individualization techniques and totalizing procedures touch each other, the survive body emerges as the most appropriate political category to apprehend the ways in which naked lives are unequally exposed to the extraction of vitality and, consequently, linked to the reproduction structure of the exception itself. In other words, the process of centralizing naked life in the calculations of power is responsible for making a body in readiness survive, which puts itself at the service of the paradigm that governs it, thus internalizing the disciplines, self-disciplines, the technologies of biopolitics and control. Coerced from within and without, this body is allocated by racist criteria into veritable infernal war zones that make possible a greater extraction of its forces, closing the horizon of experience.