Educação profissional: a normalização biopolítica da subjetividade do trabalhador

Abstract

This article makes a theorical investigation about the conditions of existence of productive subjectivity and its implications to relation between work and education, considering the historical context of transition from industrial to post-industrial society, adopting a theorical approach based in Karl Marx and Michel Foucault. According Marx´s thoughts the existence of a productive subjectivity is direct connected to the production form, although his approach about subjectivity as worker´s conscience, it isn’t limited by the determinism of economical system, but has an enlarged vision as ontology of the social self. With the transition to the post-industrial society emerges an increasing qualitative hegemony of non material work, which is related to revolutionary changes in production system that turned possibly news conditions of subjectivity existence, as a biopolitical subjectivity that is analyzed according Foucault´s concept of biopolitic. The text is concluded with a short analyses about the competence model as an exemplar dispositive of subjectivity normalization in post-industrial context.