Mortispolitics and neoliberalism

Abstract

There has been a link between biopolitics and neoliberalism. This article argues that Foucault’s biopolitics was not thought from the neoliberalism of the Chicago school, but from the ordo- liberal school. Neoliberalism must be defined in a different way, not even from the framework of necropolitics, which is based on the state of exception. On the contrary, the category of mortispolitics is proposed, which expresses greater statehood and less governmentality. Statehood does not operate through the state of exception but through the rule of law. But it is not a law equal for all or indistinct, rather it is distinctive for those who have material, racial and social privilege. Mortispolitics is expressed as a necrosociety that has distorted the equilibrium of the drives of life and death that can be seen in the figure of the Nietzschean acrobat, mainly because the way of life to pleasure and extreme enjoyment devalues death, and by devaluing it expands death among the human population and the planet. In the usa we observe a logic of legal-privilege mortispolitics and in Latin American countries there is a mortispolitical statehood.