Biopower and Anthropological Machine. Dehumanization and Humanization of Armed Actors in Colombia as Power Technologies

Abstract

In this article we present an analysis, in the intersection between the bioethical and anthropological fields, about the humanization of armed actors from the FARC-EP guerrilla after the signing of the Peace Process in 2016. To achieve this goal, we explore humanization and dehumanization processes as technologies of power with the capacity of establish an order and vision about the world and a particular way to perceive and relate with individuals, objects, places, practices, experiences, and events. Moreover, we seek to dismantle the construction of the enemy of the State as a classification of who “deserves to live” and who “deserves to die”. Our main materials of analysis were senior government officials’ discourses and museum exhibitions as representative of official views from the State.