(Bio)políticas de reconhecimento e modulações de personagens

Abstract

Identity, recognition and politics make up the categorical triad of composition of this thesis. It was a matter of investigating the ways in which recognition, when perverse, also constitutes a device of biopolitics that infers identities in modulations form of fetishized characters. For this endeavor we resort to two paths: that of bibliographic research and that of documentary research, constituting a theoretical-philosophical thesis that articulates Social Psychology and Political Philosophy. Thus, the thesis consists of three major chapters and their respective subchapters: politics, identity and resistance. The first chapter deals with( opção: elaborate on) the diagnosis of Giorgio Agamben and Achile Mbembe that politics has the paradigm of biopolitics and necropolitics; along this path, the issue of recognition as a political problem is discussed, and, finally, the thesis that recognition, although essential in social and political terms, insofar as it occurs in a perverse way, if still as a device of biopolitics - (bio) politics of recognition. The second chapter discusses the question of identity. It presents the extent to which identity constitutes an urgent political problem in our time. Thus, we followed the discussions of Ciampa's theory of identity to point out that the biopolitical forms of recognition infer about identities, producing modulations of fetishized characters - a new concept that adds to the theory. The last chapter deals with the question of resistance. Recognition and identity are presented as resistance. In this dialogue, the collective’s magazine productions “FalaGuerreira” are used, which, sustaining discussions that focus on identity, point out paths of identity and political resistance. If, in turn, the biopolitics scheme seeks population control, the device with which the identity control stratagem operates is recognition. Thus, recognition makes the control by means of symbolic management, via perverse recognition, which produces modulable characters, as existence modus operandi, that is, identity as symbolic death - an imprisonment to infinite modulations of fetishized characters. Naked life originates from its fundamental yield to sovereign power, the modulations of fetishized characters are the yield to perverse recognition forms. The fundamental performance of the biopolitical power of recognition is the production of characters’ modulation as an original political element and as a threshold of articulation between sameness and sameness, to be and not to be. In this way, the fundamental yield of recognition as a biopolitical is that individuals are subjected to modulation of the homo sacer figure