Sobre las formas de vida tecnológicas y las prácticas biopolíticas

In Critique of Information (2005), sociologist Scott Lash said that our time trend coincides with the deployment of "technological life forms." Talking about "lifestyles" suggests Lash, is to be in the area of intersection between natural-biological realities and social-cultural. And referring to "technological life forms" include in that scenario involves a third term, the technique, which enters into a composition scheme with the other two and indicates a movement of action "remote" beyond the limits of the anthropomorphic own body. In that book Lash staged the term, but it developed more than a few paragraphs. Here I seek to deepen that notion outlined succinctly by Lash, which I consider particularly fruitful for several reasons. Mainly because it serves to highlight the intimate connection between two processes that have usually been analyzed separately: first, the gradual politicization of biological life (or biological concept of the political, that is, the thesis biopolitics developed from some the writings, courses and lectures taught by Michel Foucault in the early 1970) and secondly, the increasing mechanization of production processes, human capabilities and even lifestyles. Briefly, the process of modernization in its restricted appearance in our time appears to be linked with the extension of the life and the human body of principles of autonomy of processes, improvement, optimization and individual responsibility for the care of psycho-physical endowment ("human capital "own or acquired) characteristic of a particular combination of industrial-capitalist technical code and emergent forms of neoliberal governmentality.