The use of bodies. Agamben’s idea of a non-capitalist form of life - Université de Picardie Jules Verne Accéder directement au contenu
Article Dans Une Revue Journal for Cultural Research Année : 2018

The use of bodies. Agamben’s idea of a non-capitalist form of life

Résumé

With the notion of the form-of-life as a counter-figure to the notion of bare life, Agamben seems to invite us to place at the center of a critical theory of capitalism a reflection on bios. To envisage a form of emancipation that unfolds against bare life suggests, at first glance, another relation to the living body. Such a gesture seems to be inspired by the desire to think a natural life that would also be a politically qualified life. The idea with which Agamben closes the Homo Sacer series, namely that of a use of bodies, also gestures in this direction. In this paper I show how the categories of bare life and of the use of bodies fail to live up to their promise, before demonstrating in what sense the idea of a subtraction of law as a political project which subsumes all others ends up weakening the critical potential of the idea of a form-of-life that is to be realised against the force of production of bare lives.
Fichier non déposé

Dates et versions

hal-03796861 , version 1 (04-10-2022)

Identifiants

Citer

Estelle Ferrarese. The use of bodies. Agamben’s idea of a non-capitalist form of life. Journal for Cultural Research, 2018, 22 (2), pp.126-136. ⟨10.1080/14797585.2018.1461349⟩. ⟨hal-03796861⟩
6 Consultations
0 Téléchargements

Altmetric

Partager

Gmail Facebook X LinkedIn More