The Production of Subjectivity in Government Liberal Arts: Market and Freedom in the Society of Security —a Biolopolitical Analysis Based on Michel Foucault’s Thinking

Jorge Eliécer Martínez P.
jmartinezp2@gmail.com
Universidad de la Salle, Colombia

Abstract:

At the historical moment of the reason of State, police emerges as an apparatus of knowledge, power, body control, and regulating population phenomena. It is a historical move, where police’s main object is not economic production anymore, but biological and social environment, where normalization —in its juridical-social sense— is produced. In this paper I get back to Michel Foucault’s conceptualization, in this respect, in the historical-critical tracking the ways how relations between knowledge, power, and subject interact, allowing a specific production of subjectivity linked to the truth regime of liberalism’s governmental art, to the impact of the theory-produced truth, and, finally, to economic-capitalist practices.

Keywords: Neoliberalism, subjectivity, market, security company, biopolitics.