Considering the transformations in the modern social tissue and in the elements of biopower characteristic of this historical period, this article aims at contributing to the reflection on the current dynamics of power over the bodies and life. Based on foucaultian studies it is argued that the contemporary world centrality of management of risk intensifies, not without changes, fundamental aspects of the modern biopower. The Brazilian social assistance policies and transformations in public health status, focused on the logic of risk, are analysed as govern dispositives. It is also discussed how life becomes both the aim of control and the space for resistance in this process. One can conclude that the analysis of new modes of subjectivation resulting from the integration of capital and logic of risk is essential to build new stylistics of existence and to create different analysis parameters for the present days. The new situation covers complex, contradictory factors, always in tension. It is possible to talk about the creation of countless new places of negotiation, power and relief or of triggering of suffering, which require the creation of a new mentality of analysis.
Social influences; Power; Risk; Health; Foucault, Michel, 1926-1984
