On the biopolitical constitution of the subject.

摘要

In response to Michael Hardt's and Antonio Negri's Commonwealth, this project reimagines the terrain of biopolitics as one of emergence and productivity. It therefore charts, through previous biopolitical critique, a model for the constitution of subjectivity. Establishing that a concept of biopolitical production is necessarily a discourse of intertwined epistemology and ontology, this project considers: 1) the way in which knowledge structures state power; 2) the way in which the subject can recuperate agency through an exploitation of such knowledge-structures; 3) the way in which state violence might be characterized as the "bare life" of the state. Drawing these three points together, this project seeks to reconsider torture as a paradigm for re-subjectivization.