Keywords
posthumanism
political ecology
non-human life
hydrosocial cycle
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Abstract
This article examines how the posthumanism framework allows us to broaden the understanding of biopolitics beyond the purely human realm, integrating non-human entities as a constitutive part of the apparatuses of power. Through an interdisciplinary framework between biopolitics and political ecology, it is possible to argue that posthumanism reveals new forms of control and biopower over non-human life and territories. The hydrosocial cycle is an example that allows us to think about hybrid spaces where the boundaries between the natural and the social are erased, allowing us to visualize how networks of power reconfigure life and its management. These transformations not only imply a change in objects of control, but also a mutation in the ways of conceiving life, agency, and politics in the geological context of the Anthropocene.
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