The birth of the political virus.

From freedom to self-surveillance

Abstract

The title of this collaboration refers to a famous text by Michel Foucault. In this case we
develop the birth of the political virus. It has been debated since biopolitics since the
appearance of Covid. The viral analogy has dominated the era long before.
Every analogy, in turn, is in a position to evolve. It is necessary to accept the excessive
openness of virality. We are in the presence of one of the events of natural selection: when
a political virality defines the population.

We live in multiple pandemic situations. It's not just viral diseases that become pandemic.
They have convinced us of the benefits and harshness of population surveillance.
Foucault's biopolitics is conceived as a device with the power to "make" live and "let" die
"to the population. From the political virus, "it is made to be born and it is watched to
live". That protection becomes self-surveillance. The virus-political device transmutes
from self-care to self-surveillance.
Life as zoé recovers spaces that are leaving the dissipation of bios. We move in reference
to the state of exception, within a general framework of broad freedoms, towards
intermediate freedoms. The non-place is reconverted into the opposite of neutrality. Thus,
the airport is no longer a typical non-place to be a viral device.
In the political virus, pandemiologists will be the new models of breeders, with the
possibility of overcoming the advance of digital technocrats. For pandemiology
something else happens. The latter fill the gaps to intertwine endless plans.