Technobiopolitics: Algorithmic subjects and resistance devices. An analysis from Foucault's perspective.

Abstract

The article analyzes the concept of automatic subject in the context of neoliberal capitalism, integrating perspectives from Foucault´s analysis, considering new interpretations of Marx´s philopsophy. This concept depicts how contemporary social and production relations function in such a way that individuals are stripped of their own agency, becoming mere mechanisms of a capitalist automaton apparatus, generating a deeply alienated form of subjectivity. The article´s objective is to highlight the philosophical implications of this transformation on subjectivity, suggesting that power in modern capitalism is shown not only through direct coercion, but through surveillance and normalization mechanisms that compromise individual behavior and perception. Foucault´s work is crucial to think and illustrate how these dynamics of control have evolved towards a digital algorithmic surveillance which reinforces the subject´s loss of agency. It raises the urgency of developing resistance strategies that defy these control devices while reaffirming the need to restore the sense of autonomy and human freedom. Foucauldian´s reflection on power and subjectivity thereby becomes the foundation for imagining a critical way of life that not only questions the prevailing systems but also aspires to an ethic that promotes freedom and care of the others as disruptive practices in the face of the capital´s dominion. Such as the notion of care of the self or the meddling of art, understood as a counter-dispositive, as opposed to the hegemonic discourses of power and meaning.