BODY, NAKED LIFE AND SURVIVAL FROM GIORGIO AGAMBEN
This research project investigates how naked life is reinserted in contemporaneity and how it contributes to the analysis of relations of calculation and survival of exhausted bodies. To do so, it reviews the concept in the work of Giorgio Agamben, specifically within his philosophical project called Homo Sacer, relating it to what the author designates as a contemporary biopolitical paradigm, that is, to the concentration camp. The hypothesis is that the politicization of death in the concentration camps of the Second World War demanded from naked life its ultimate excitability, that is, its survival, linking it to a structure of reproducibility of the internal economy of the camps. In other words, the process of centralizing bare life in the calculations of power is responsible for making an exhausted body survive by means of its total mobilization within the state of exception. Such mobilization constantly submits bodies to readiness, placing them at the service of the paradigm that governs them, thus internalizing disciplines, self-disciplines and the biopolitical technologies of domination. In this approach, it means to say that naked life, in its state of total mobilization, is not just a survival abandoned to its own fate, but also an exhausted body, traversed inside and out by disciplinary techniques and control techniques, immediately linked to the own state of permanent exception and its structure of reproduction.