Existe un consenso general en torno a la condena de los textos de Foucault sobre la revolución iraní, a los que se considera un error manifiesto, ya sea debido a que el entusiasmo por la revolución islámica lo habría alejado imprudentemente de sus verdaderos intereses teóricos, ya sea debido a que ellos revelan un trasfondo totalitario, ingenuo y hasta misógino de su filosofía, lo cual, por supuesto, ahorra a los comentadores un trabajo hermenéutico sobre la inserción de tales escritos en (...) una obra cuya apuesta general aún es objeto de disputa académica. En este trabajo proponemos una vía alternativa de comprensión que no toma estos textos como un error, sino como parte de un diagnóstico al que se busca echar luz a través de la dimensión del viaje, el periodismo radical y la heterotopología como elementos fundamentales de una apuesta filosófica por la alteridad. There is consensus in disapproving the journalistic articles written by Foucault about the Iranian revolution. They are considered clear mistakes. Some say that this is so because the enthusiasm of Foucault towards the Islamic revolution moved him away from his true theoretical interests; others say that what those texts reveal is a totalitarian, naive, and even misogynistic background of his philosophy. By doing this, commentators spear themselves a hermeneutical work on the incorporation of those texts into a work whose general bet remains the subject of academic discussion. In this paper, we propose an alternative approach to the issue; one in which the texts are not considered a mistake but rather they are seen as part of a diagnosis that can get some light from the ideas of travel, radical journalism and heterotopology. These considered as fundamental elements of a philosophical bet on alterity. (shrink)

In this article, we aim to address neoliberal rationality as a form of antidemocratic governmentality, operating through and for inequality. Subsequently, we will explore within the Argentine political theoretical tradition the possibility of delineating an alternative governmentality. To achieve this, we have divided the article into three paragraphs and a final reflection section. In the first paragraph, we seek to reconstruct Foucault's problematization of governmentality as presented in the late 1970s. In the following paragraph, we utilize Foucault's framework to elucidate (...) how the promotion of inequality and the formal reduction of democracy are interconnected from the perspective of neoliberal rationality. In the final paragraph, we explore the possibility of articulating an alternative governmentality to neoliberalism based on the way Argentine philosopher Conrado Eggers Lan problematized Peronism in the early 1970s. Finally, we propose some considerations and draw conclusions based on the intersection between Foucault and Eggers Lan's perspectives. (shrink)

En artículo se propongo analizar el problema del «derecho de los gobernados en Foucault» a partir de algunos artículos del dosier «Michel Foucault y el derecho» de la revista Dorsal, n.° 7. A partir de los principales problemas y argumentos presentados en tales artículos procuraré organizar los ejes centrales que articulan el debate actual en torno a la cuestión del derecho en la obra de Michel Foucault. En un segundo momento, a partir de dos conceptos expondré una cuestión insuficientemente problematizada (...) en dicho dosier. A saber, los conceptos de «derecho del pueblo» y «deber de los gobernantes» y el problema del alcance de los derechos de los gobernados así como las condiciones de su ejercicio y las garantías que implica. (shrink)

In this paper, I intend to defend the following hypothesis: Foucault's definition of politics from 1979, i.e. the game between heterogeneous governmentalities, overdetermines the two other dimensions of the concept: the warlike or antagonistic relationship between subjects and the resistance of a form of subjectivation against a governmentality. To this end, I address the problem of the possible relationship between overdetermination and the Foucauldian concept of politics. In this sense, Laclau and Mouffe’s work and Althusser’s criticism delimit the field of (...) inquiry, although they do not exhaust it. This contrast will serve to bring to light the implications of a Foucauldian interpretation of overdetermination and thus describe Foucault’s critiques of the poststructuralist model for political thought. From this, I intend to state the fact that Mouffe’s latest writings seem to be oriented towards avoiding the risks that Foucault pointed out, bringing her reflection close to that of the French philosopher. (shrink)

En este artículo me propongo abordar la cuestión del estatuto de la filosofía en lo que se ha denominado poshistoria desde una perspectiva que pretende articular el diagnóstico foucaultiano del presente con la filosofía política de Rancière. Lo que pretendo señalar es el sentido que adquiere una pos..