Ima li života prije smrti? Pojam života između biopolitičkog i postmodernog stanja
Is There a Life Before Death? The Concept of Life between Biopolitical and Postmodern Condition

Summary/Abstract: In today´s global constellation of contemporeanity, where life becomes a tool of pluriversal manipulation by different powers of governance over it, the very category of life itself is in question. What is, really, the life? Is it the last stage, or last line of defense of meaningful human existence? Is it just a banal fact of survival? Does life really has some meaning? Is there anything outside Monty Python´s question on “The Meaning of Life”? Finally and again nowadays: is there a life before death at all? This article is focused on relationship between contemporary biopolitical theory and the one – slightly less contemporaneous – theory and philosophy of condition of postmodernity (D. Harvey). Is there any connection between Lyotard´s The Postmodern Condition and, for example, Agamben´s description of Homo sacer? Why is the relation between analyis of “naked life” against sovereign power (Agamben) – vs a report on knowledge in most developed countries of, so called, Western world (Lyotard) – so important? The category of life is narrowly connected with the possibility of radical change in the world. A life that is nothing but biologicaly determined, or just politically/culturally prescribed – is it worh living at all? The life should be neither nakedness, nor “biological machine”, but the real freedom. “Being without truthful life of freedom doesn´t have any sense at all”. The life survives through READING. On form of such a life is also THINKING, as well as WRITING. It is all about – more or less! – the human´s survival and the salvation of his/hers soul. This is also the freedom which transgresses the framework of life as a project and programming. READING, THINKING and WRITING incorporate the “abyss” of the freedom itself.

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