Gubernamentalidad: de la tradición biopolítica a la tradición gubernamental

Abstract

The purpose of this comment, about the biopolitics tradition, is to help newreaders on these issues, to clarify the overall picture and the path that has beenset about the different types of this technology analysis, described by Foucault.This article argues that there are at least four clearly recognizable moments inthe tradition of biopolitics and three within the governmental tradition. Bothtraditions are associated with the social context that demands new theories toanalyze the present, and the dissemination of these theories. Also it traces a gridof intelligibility between biopolitics and governmental conditions