Precarious life, right to protection and prosperity in the scenario of biopolitics

Abstract

In our study, we discuss an important distinction that author Judith Butler makes between notions of precariousness - as a universal condition shared by all living, and precarious condition - as a politically induced contingency. Our intention is a study, in the light of Butler's reflections on her conception of precarious life, a production of certain normative schemes that feed back in the field of ontologies and epistemologies of the subject, which are always constituted in the context of relations of power that, in the last degree, are what determine different possibilities of access to rights, different guarantees to prosperity, even determining the visibility or visual erasure of some groups of people in relation to others.