From Ideological State Apparatuses to the Birth of Biopolitics, and back

Authors

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.36517/rcs.51.3.a03

Keywords:

neoliberalism, ideology, governmentality, Foucault, Althusser

Abstract

In search of a theoretically informed reading of the recent transformations in the neoliberal subjectivation process, this article is based on the following question: to what extent does the Michel Foucault’s genealogy of governmentality dialogue, advance, and/or regress in relation to the framework of contributions and contradictions outlined in Louis Althusser’s work? The analysis is guided by the hypothesis that it is possible to read the Foucaultian genealogy of both discipline and governmentality as a concrete development of the research program of the political production of subjects defined in Althusser’s seminal essay. It is, therefore, a question of mapping the way in which Althusser informs Foucault to think of at what level such Foucaultian formulations can contribute to the (re)reading of Althusser and thus to a critique of both in favor of a framework of analysis better suited to the present conjuncture of capitalism.

Author Biographies

Lucas Trindade da Silva, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN)/Professor

Professor adjunto do Instituto Humanitas da Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Norte (UFRN). Doutor em Sociologia pela Universidade de Brasília (UnB). E-mail: lucastrindadedasilva@yahoo.com.br

Edemilson Paraná, Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC)/Professor

Professor adjunto do Departamento de Ciências Sociais da Universidade Federal do Ceará (UFC). Professor permanente dos Programas de Pós-graduação em Sociologia da UFC e em Estudos Comparados sobre as Américas da UnB. Doutor em Sociologia pela UnB. Email: edemilsonparana@ufc.br.

Alexandre Marinho Pimenta, Secretaria de Estado da Educação do Distrito Federal/Professor

Professor da Secretaria de Estado da Educação do Distrito Federal. Mestre em Sociologia pela Universidade de Brasília (UnB). 

Published

2020-11-01

How to Cite

Trindade da Silva, L., Paraná, E., & Marinho Pimenta, A. (2020). From Ideological State Apparatuses to the Birth of Biopolitics, and back. Revista De Ciências Sociais (Social Sciences’ Journal), 51(3), 313–356. https://doi.org/10.36517/rcs.51.3.a03