Biopolitics, necropolitics, zootechnics and domexecration: the power of death

Abstract

The present is an exploratory theoretical essay, which seeks to trace the potential of the intersection of notions known by philosophy, such as biopolitics and necropolitics, together with concepts such as domexecration, coming from emerging fields of social knowledge, also resorting to the field of zootechnics, as a specialized modern discourse (in Foucault's terms) where it is possible to reveal the biopolitical, necropolitical and taming effects that have affected non-human animals, since zootechnics is a science that was created with the purpose of taming them, and, because of this, animals suffer the fate of subjugation and slavery. The theoretical tools with which the topic is approached have not usually been linked and their intention is to understand more fully the way in which in modernity the government of the living is not exhausted in the regulation of human animals, that is, how racism, speaking of the human sphere, is present in the form of speciesism in the animal sphere.