Abstract

NALLI, Marcos  and  SLONSKI, Manuela. The Bataillian fascination with death: an alternative to biopolitical governmentality. Nat. hum. [online]. 2021, vol.23, n.2, pp. 125-140. ISSN 1517-2430.

It is known that one of the key elements to biopolitical governmentality is to have life as its main object, from which the obviousness of "biopolitical" neologism arises. But it is also known that in order to be entitled to such an object, that is life, it must be the object of consideration in a political and governmental defense and security system. Now, at least in the light of the Espositian argument, the search for the protection and defense of life and the subject, given the nihilistic nucleus of the community, a way of governing was introduced marked by what the Italian philosopher called the immune paradigm, which consists of protection of life from its controlled threat that ends up further aggravating the nihilist nucleus. That said, and accepting Esposito's own indication that Georges Bataille is the most radical anti-Hobbes (since Hobbes is the emblematic figure who seems to inaugurate all this nihilistic drift of community and politics), our aim is to investigate how fascination Bataillian by death - which can be thought of as the fascination with the negative - is a philosophically instigating way of thinking about overcoming the nihilistic drift of both the community and biopolitics in their immune way of operating and managing lives.

Keywords : Bataille; Esposito; Life; Death; Biopolitics.

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