Necropolitics and objectification of life

annihilation to mercantilization of the criminal

Abstract

The theme of this article orbit the issue of confronting the illicit drug trade in Brazil and the criminalization of poverty. We intend to point to the concomitance of two practices directed at those considered potentially dangerous (black and poor). These practices would be the explicit use of violence and extermination, in the management of the right to life and death (Necropolitics and Capitalism Gore), as well as the management of crime that is grounded on rescue and prevention discourses (entrepreneurship and commodification of the figure of the “drug dealer”). In this way, our central objective will be to approach some gears that fundament this concomitance of practices at first seen as disparate, but which are, in their operation, perversely complementary. As a methodology we will use small fragments of narratives as triggers and, from this, we will make a brief bibliographical search using authors like Mbembe, Triana, Foucault and Pelbart. We conclude that despite poverty having become a profitable venture for some social organizations, it is necessary to seek to give visibility to the resistance that occurs in the daily practices of psychologists who work in institutions such as prisons and NGOs.