The exclusion is not far from here: the nature and potential operator biopolitical in some stages of the formation of Brazil

Abstract

In a process marked by elements of continuity and discontinuity, problematics and to be thought, even though perceptibles, the “exclusion” made part of the Brazilian Nation building process, in colonial and post-colonial spheres. In this sense, and in different historical moments, the nature works as a way that nowadays we can define conceptually as “biopolitic” in the production of sovereignty and power dynamics. The discourses produced about the nature are part of a complex dynamic of narratives elaboration that present themselves as a truth act and a pedagogical instrument in the construction of the modern man’s glance. As the main object of this article, considering this aspect of the production of the “real” and of the “bios”subtle control, we try to analyze the relationships presents in the different social and historical phenomenon that found and (re)found a Brazilian environment – the colonization and the immigration/colonization – related to the control and regulation instruments activated in the situations of biopower practice. The analysis, that depart from a theoretical interrogation about the mettle of the colonization in the first modernity, specify some precursor and problematics traces of a technical of the government of the life in the colonial discourse of the 16th Century. In relation to the moment of the mass immigration phenomenon, in the end of the 19th Century, we try to understand the foundation mechanisms of a civil and civilization image in which cross the exclusion and the destruction of the native things, in a practice of power that presents as the departure point an excluded that builds spaces of exclusion.