O enquadramento biopolítico de pessoas empobrecidas: entre o governo dos corpos e a biopotência de modos de vida na imagem fotográfica

Abstract

In this article I argue, with Fassin and Butler, that exists a particular modality of government of collective bodies: the biopolitical framing of citizens and groups impoverished in the context of the implementation of social politics. In a more specific way, I appeal to the institutional images of beneficiaries of the Bolsa Família Program (found in the web site of the Social Ministry of Public Works and the Economy) to show how the biopolitical and neoliberal government of collective bodies involves the production of narratives, arguments and talks that trace distinctions between ways of life considered as worthy and those widely perceived as despicable. The biopolitical framing is a technique of government or governmentality that formats the scenes of appearance, preparing them to define exemplary citizens and groups, considered as parameter, whose project and way of life are seen as an antithesis of deviation and whose existences are morally judged as out of consideration and appreciation.