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Crisis of Politics as Biopolitical Condition

The contemporary crisis of political in the West, in analogy to postmodern condition, can be described as a biopolitical condition. In the biopolitical condition there are three prevailing discourses that are devaluing all other cultural, ideological values: economic discours (that is privileging the constant rise of capital), security discours and the associated normalization of violence and discourses about biological or bare life as the locus of political power. The paper will analyse influence of the biopolitical condition on the public policies, institutional practicies and images dealing with phenomenon of refugeeness (refugees, asylum seekers, ilegal immigrants etc.)in the Western countries and EU. In that respect, several contemporary phenomenon can be observed. In the policies of immigration and asylum in Europe there is constant tension between discourses of compassion and repression, policies of pity and policies of control. So, humanitarianization of asylum (and the decline of political asylum) is accompanied by the policies of security. Today, policies of security and the structural counter violence (localized state of exception) of the sovereign community are no longer localized at the borders of political communities. In fact they are spreading in to the two directions: penetrating in to the center of political community blending with the normal state and spreading outside of political community in the far distance from official political borders. This normalization of violence is dialectically connected with humanitarian discours which is traying to preserve bare(biological) „sacred“ life. Using the works of Agamben, Castells, Foucault, Nietzsche, Žižek etc., the paper will offer an explanation of this „paradox“ through analysis of the contemporary transformation of the sovereign community and crisis of politics that is connected with that the rise of biopolitics.

biopolitics; postmodernism; biopolitical condition

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