ABSTRACT
The paper starts from the hypothesis that a “democratic governmentality” has been taking place in Brazil for the last decades; that is, the production of government actions that consist in constituting subjects as citizens so that they can be governed. In the machinery of biopower, as conceived by Michel Foucault, what we are following are movements of construction of political actions that are exerted on the populations, as, for example, the public policies. In this text, we go over some Brazilian public policy documents in the field of education, from the Lei de Diretrizes e Bases da Educação Nacional (“the National Education’s Law of Guidelines and Bases’) from 1996 to the Base Nacional Comum Curricular (“the Curricular Common National Base”) from 2017. The objective is to map, in these biopolitical productions, the elements that implicate in the production of a subject as a citizen, and a target of government actions. In the end, tactics of resistance to this biopolitical production are discussed, as a refusal of what we are, for the sake of the search for new subjective productions.
Keywords:
Biopolitcs; Governmentality; Education; Subjectivity