Uma arqueologia da vida em Michel Foucault

Abstract

ABSTRACT: In an archeology of life in Michel Foucault, not only the archaeological treatment that Foucault gives to the notion of life in the 1960s are involved, but also the effects of a reflection on life taken as an epistemological marker capable of illuminating a certain crystallization of the order of speech. The notion of life that Foucault considers to emerge in the epistemic transition that inaugurates modernity is at stake not only in the emergence of biology but also in the political-economic discourses and practices that result in biopolitics. Foucault's concept of life therefore reveals itself as determinable, open to determination from the outside, in constant transformation by technologies of power and knowledge. Foucault, in this way, does not define life, does not establish an ontological status for this notion, it is not in question, for Foucault, a definition of life of a vitalist type, but rather a methodological option whose contribution to the acuteness of Foucault's reflections on the biopower is central.

Keywords: Life; Biopolitics; Archaeology; Foucault.