O inumano e a educação: problemas colocados à educação a partir do pensamento de Michel Foucault e Giorgio Agamben

Abstract

The present work aims to discuss, from theoretical contributions of Michel Foucault and Giorgio Agamben, the production of inhuman by the educational processes. Therefore, the search will start from two different theoretical and even distinct poles: the abnormal, thought by foucaultians analysis, and the Homo Sacer, analyzed by the agambenians contributions. In this approach, the school failure would give way to a conception of school as a big regulatory and selective machinery of production of subjectivities and desubjectivities. The school would be one of the institutions and the main one that, through bio-disciplinaries and control devices, and exception devices, would operate and manage the subject through the quality, effectiveness and productivity of human capital. In other words, the school is a contemporary biopolitical machine, responsible for produce, classify, separate, divide and improve "good" human capital or expunge and eliminate from the school processes and capitalist competition processes the "bad" capital humans considered trash and disposable. And, in this context, on the crises of the current capitalism, we notice how the failed and biodegradable self-entrepreneurs become the current abnormals who will transmute into gypsies Homo Sacer, the "precariat", constantly threatened by exception as a general rule. Self-entrepreneurs are a biopolitical caesura constantly threatened by the sovereign flock and its state of political-economic exception, which is a declared war regime within contemporary societies. The failed self-entrepreneurs are the entrepreneurs of misery, people who always live under the phantom ghost of gypsy Homo Sacer. Thus, exclusion and precariousness of individuals and workers transmutam in processes of elimination and extermination policy of controlled state of exception.