Abstract

FELICIO, Carmelita Brito de Freitas. Education under the sign of biopolitics: from resistance to forms of control to self-constitution of ourselves. Rev. Inter Ação [online]. 2015, vol.40, n.1, pp.85-100. ISSN 0101-7136.  https://doi.org/10.0104/interacao.2015.401.06.

The proposal of this essay is to think the becoming-education and its potential relations with biopolitics. We start from the hypothesis that the technologies of knowledge-power and control and normalization devices cannot work without a teaching vector. Therefore, if biopolitics invests in bodies to make them objects of political control, cultural manipulation and economic exploitation, our task is to oppose these attacks and invoke the power of resistance lodged in these individuals. For Foucault, the ethical sense of the urgent task of building a historical ontology of actuality also involves inquiring what we are making of ourselves. If our own formation of self involves the task of educating against and beyond our own time, then we should take seriously the warning of Nietzsche with which Foucault certainly agrees: educators must begin by educating themselves. "And it is for them that I am writing".

Keywords : Biopolitics; Education; Resistance; Formation of Self.

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