Agroanthropy: Biopolitics and Neoliberal Governmentality

BIOPOLÍTICA E GOVERNAMENTALIDADE NEOLIBERAL

Abstract

This article introduces the concept of agroanthropy and its mechanisms of cultivation as the intrinsic logic of neoliberal governmentality. Beginning with Michel Foucault’s biopolitical analysis of neoliberalism and advancing into the field of app-based labor, this perspective distances itself from both macro- and micro-structural approaches in order to propose an immanent investigation that articulates subject and society. In this sense, the technology of cultivation unfolds across different dimensions, establishing a complex circuit of internal and external objectivation. The analysis dismantles the naturalist fiction attributed to liberal thought. More than a critique of labor exploitation under capitalism, agroanthropy reveals the specific, active, and complex technology of exploitation instituted by neoliberalism.