Aistis Žekevičius | Lithuanian Culture Research Institute (original) (raw)
Uploads
Papers by Aistis Žekevičius
Athena: filosofijos studijos, 2022
In the article, I suggest that the interplay between pandemic and race, instead of opening paths ... more In the article, I suggest that the interplay between pandemic and race, instead of opening paths towards an understanding of mutual interconnectedness and vulnerability, deepens the existing structural racial inequality by reinforcing the existing necropolitical regimes of exclusion and amplifying the importance of race in biopolitics. First, I question the biopolitical uses of race, discern the general capitalization of life and highlight the colonial nature of epidemiology. Further, I focus on the neoliberal subjectivity of the new working class and argue that the Foucauldian imperative “make live or let die” gave way to the differentiation between lives to be saved and lives to be risked. Then, I claim that the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the race-based necropolitics of usable bodies and the biopolitics based on the distribution of differential vulnerability. Finally, I analyse decolonial, politico-economic, ecological, and solidary remedies that might help to find a way out of...
This master's thesis examines the respective biopolitical theories of Michel Foucault, Kiarin... more This master's thesis examines the respective biopolitical theories of Michel Foucault, Kiarina Kordela and Roberto Esposito. It is mostly based on hermeneutic method, comparative method and qualitative analysis, as well as abstraction and generalization. Foucault treats biopolitics as historically fluctuating relationship between political mechanisms and life, thus bringing together the two thitherto separate realms. Foucault relates the birth of biopolitics to the inception of the liberal art of government, as well as to the emergence of disciplinary and regulatory forms of power. In his opinion, the existence of biopolitics anticipates thanatopolitics, which is in turn closely related to racism. The main object of Kordela's biopolitics is life conceived of as the potential labor-power. According to her, biopolitics is nothing else than the constant production and administration of the illusion of immortality. Such treatment of biopolitics, however, has certain consequences...
Athena: filosofijos studijos, 2022
In the article, I suggest that the interplay between pandemic and race, instead of opening paths ... more In the article, I suggest that the interplay between pandemic and race, instead of opening paths towards an understanding of mutual interconnectedness and vulnerability, deepens the existing structural racial inequality by reinforcing the existing necropolitical regimes of exclusion and amplifying the importance of race in biopolitics. First, I question the biopolitical uses of race, discern the general capitalization of life and highlight the colonial nature of epidemiology. Further, I focus on the neoliberal subjectivity of the new working class and argue that the Foucauldian imperative “make live or let die” gave way to the differentiation between lives to be saved and lives to be risked. Then, I claim that the COVID-19 pandemic has exposed the race-based necropolitics of usable bodies and the biopolitics based on the distribution of differential vulnerability. Finally, I analyse decolonial, politico-economic, ecological, and solidary remedies that might help to find a way out of...
This master's thesis examines the respective biopolitical theories of Michel Foucault, Kiarin... more This master's thesis examines the respective biopolitical theories of Michel Foucault, Kiarina Kordela and Roberto Esposito. It is mostly based on hermeneutic method, comparative method and qualitative analysis, as well as abstraction and generalization. Foucault treats biopolitics as historically fluctuating relationship between political mechanisms and life, thus bringing together the two thitherto separate realms. Foucault relates the birth of biopolitics to the inception of the liberal art of government, as well as to the emergence of disciplinary and regulatory forms of power. In his opinion, the existence of biopolitics anticipates thanatopolitics, which is in turn closely related to racism. The main object of Kordela's biopolitics is life conceived of as the potential labor-power. According to her, biopolitics is nothing else than the constant production and administration of the illusion of immortality. Such treatment of biopolitics, however, has certain consequences...