Horror, public-private violence and biopolitics in neoliberalism

Abstract

This article starts from the idea that resistance to governmentality should be the first point of political analysis,since they are which organize politics and allow us to observethe blind spots of established power. To do this, we first review the extraordinary violences that characterizes neoliberal governmentality and, especially, those that we can characterize as public-private violence. The policies of administration and selection of life (biopowers) are addressed, as well as the use of fear as a form of population control. In the face of all this, different resistances arise, of a political, social and, especially, community nature. This article emphasize the importance of the local compared to the global and its capacity to erode what seems invulnerable, the multiplication of resistances, their articulation and the privileged role of the experiences of community and indigenous autonomies, as a fundamental alternative to build what will come.