FOUCAULT, CİNSELLİK VE BİYOPOLİTİKA

Abstract

Bu makale, biyopolitika ve cinsellik kavramlarına atıfta bulunarak Michel Foucault'nun yaşam, beden ve nüfus üzerine kuramlaştırmasını incelemektedir. Bunu yaparken, makale siyasetin rasyonalitesi ile iktidar arasındaki ilişkiye eleştirel bir ilgi gösteriyor. Bu eleştirel ilişkiyi takiben, makale temel olarak, hakikat rejiminin hakikat ve söylemsel pratiklerinin, sosyal normlar üretmek ve bu normları nüfus ve insan-özne idealleştirmelerine dayatmak için stratejik ve operasyonel bir konum kazandığı kavramsal bir çerçeve geliştirmektedir. Bu makalenin sonunda, bu kavramsal analiz, özne oluşumu ve biyopolitik öznelliğin açıklığa kavuşturulması için bir yol sunmaktadır. Bu çalışma, önerdiği alternatif yoldan ilerleyerek, Foucault'nun biyopolitikasının mekanizmaları ve araçlarıyla genel olarak iktidar ilişkilerini ve siyasi düzenlemeleri ortaya çıkarmak için bir perspektif olduğunu ve farklı cinselliklerin hadlarını fark etmek için aydınlatıcı bir kavramdır. Neticede, bu kavramlar ışığında direniş, karşı koyma ve iktidar ilişkilerinin sorgulanmasıyla sona ermektedir.

Keywords

• foucault
• hakikat
• cinsellik
• nüfus
• beden
• biyopolitika

FOUCAULT, SEXUALITY AND BIOPOLITICS

Abstract

This paper analyzes Michel Foucault’s theorisation on life, body and population in referring to the concepts of biopolitics and sexuality. In doing so, the paper puts critical attention to the relation between the rationality of politics and power. Following this critical relationship, the paper basically develops a conceptual framework in which truth and discursive practices of the truth regime gain strategic and operational position to produce social norms and to impose these norms on the idealisations of population and human-subjects. By the end of this paper, this conceptual analysis offers a way through which the subject formation and biopolitical subjectivity are clarified. Relying on this alternative way, this paper puts forward that Foucault’s biopolitics with its mechanisms and instruments is a perspective in order to reveal power relations and political regulations in general; and is a light to realize boundaries of different sexualities. This analysis ends by questioning the resistance, counteract and power relations in the light of these concepts.

Keywords

• Foucault
• truth
• biopolitics
• sexuality
• population
• body

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