Bir Kavram İki Düşünce: Foucault’dan Agamben’e Biyopolitikanin Dönüşümü
One Concept Two Thoughts: The Transformation of Biopolitics from Foucault to Agamben

Summary/Abstract: The term Biopolitics could be thought as a “deviation moment” from the classical understanding of the doctrine of Sovereignity. Unlike the understanding of the sovereignity which was built on a belief revealing the force of power to subject the bodies to death, according to biopolitics, the very influence of power is not to subject the bodies, but to make them to be governmentalised. Governmentality, for Foucault, is not the objectification of life against power; on the contrary, it is a process of re-production of the life itself. Understanding life as a re-productible form reveals a new governance strategy whose main function is to makes lives live. But, the Agambenian paradigm of biopolitics focuses on the surrounding effect of the power in terms of the “state of exception”. Exception means a threshold that power can release itself among legal and non-legal. Agamben posits that the state of exception make biopolitics to be functionalized as a power configuration between life and death.

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