GOVERNING THROUGH INSENSIBILITY

PUBLIC SECURITY AND BIOPOLITIC BODY MANAGEMENT - THE ADMINISTRATION OF DEATH IN PRISONS

Authors

  • Jackson Silva Leal Programa de Pós-Graduação da Universidade do Extremo-Sul Catarinense (PPGD-UNESC); https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0779-1103
  • Alex da Rosa Programa de Pos=Graduação em Direito (UNESC)

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.21527/2176-6622.2021.56.10350

Keywords:

mass incarceration; prison massacres; public security; ruling through crime; biopolitical management;

Abstract

This paper aims to contribute to the analysis of the permanent massacre in which Brazilian public security has been constituted. and this public security program of fundamental electoral political as well as market importance, allows working with the idea of ​​governing through crime, already mentioned by Jonathan Simon, who addresses himself here on an even cruder face that is governing through insensitivity and the administration of massacres, whether they are in the public square, or within prisons and penitentiary as (last) public security apparatus. Methodologically this work develops as an analytical theoretical effort, which among a multitude of possible approaches, is carried out a Foucaultian-Agambennian, theoretical, critical and reflexive analysis; that do not explain the totality of the problem but that add elements to think the construction of barbaric subjectivities that are under and behind this bloody reality and insensitive to suffering. The objective is to provide elements and keys of analysis in view of the expanding reality of segregationism that prison represents the apex, and how an organization and social relations based on a destructive and annihilating subjectivity of the other that is the death of the self has been constituted as a subject (social being).

Author Biographies

Jackson Silva Leal, Programa de Pós-Graduação da Universidade do Extremo-Sul Catarinense (PPGD-UNESC);

Doutor em Direito (UFSC); mestre em Politica Social (UCPel); graduado em Direito e advogado inscrito na OAB/RS; professor da Graduação e Programa de Pós-Graduação em Direito da UNESC; coordenador do Grupo de Criminologia Critica Latino-Americana (UNESC); co-lider do Grupo de Pensamento Juridico Critico (UNESC);

Alex da Rosa, Programa de Pos=Graduação em Direito (UNESC)

MEstrando em Direito (PPGD-UNESC); graduado em Direito (UNESC); bolsista FAPESC; membro do Grupo Andradiano de Criminologia (UNESC)

Published

2021-12-16

How to Cite

Silva Leal, J. ., & da Rosa, A. (2021). GOVERNING THROUGH INSENSIBILITY: PUBLIC SECURITY AND BIOPOLITIC BODY MANAGEMENT - THE ADMINISTRATION OF DEATH IN PRISONS. Law in Debate Journal, 30(56), 117–131. https://doi.org/10.21527/2176-6622.2021.56.10350