Biopolitics: The Post and Transhumanism Implications

Abstract

This paper tries to open an intelligibility polygon corresponding to contemporary biopolitical reason, focusing in four fundamental axis: 1) the governmental axis; 2) the (bio)intervention logics; 3) the de-multiplication of the body; 4) the register apparatus and the evidence. Speaking of contemporary biopolitics round these four axis redirect us to the question about the implications of the post and the transhumanism which are configuring the subjectivity, technology and politics dimensions of the XXI century. To expose the posthumanism, as a cultural critique of the classic humanism or as the overcoming of the human through the (bio)technology advances (transhumanism), forces us to understand it as a dispositif of subjectivation and at the same time of de-subjectivation which, in his terrible reality, de-humanize, according to the instrumentalization of that dispositif. Without a doubt the posthumanism, understood as production of affirmative life, is followed of an affirmative biopolitics that here is driven beyond the epochal triumph of the zoé.