Abstract
The following article strives to develop a reflection on the possibilities of resistance to the biopolitical power ongoing in today’s society. It is questioned if these possibilities can be glimpsed in some ways of live and in different social experiences, taking as examples practices from homeless people, activities and mobilizations carried out by young people in different contexts and the Slutwalk. The objective is to investigate in what ways marginalized or subalternized groups produce resistance by means of their different ways of life, of their specificities and the way how they express themselves, and, thus, manage to escape, although fleetingly, from the biopolitical mechanisms that capture life and its energy to use it as its supply. For this purpose, concepts such as disciplinary and biopolitical society, naked life, form of life and multitude are briefly analyzed, in order to verify, from a theoretical-philosophical basis, whether it is possible to visualize sketches of resistance in the selected examples. The research reveals that, although in specific and ephemeral moments, several forms of expression, behavior and organization are capable of achieving a subversion to this power that is intertwined with life, revealing a potency of life, a biopotency. The method of approach is the hypothetico-deductive in an exploratory research that adopts proceedings such as selection of the bibliographies and reading and reflection on the researches about the ways of life mentioned above.
Keywords:
Biopolitics; Potency of life; Resistance; Social experiences