Perspectivas de (não) soberania em Michel Foucault: da sociedade disciplinar às técnicas de governo pastoral

Abstract

The present study aims to analyze the insufficiency of a juridical-sovereign model as a way of analyzing con-temporary power relations. Oriented by the archaeo-logical method, the research presents as a hypothesis the insufficiency of the models of legal-sovereign analysis to understand the dynamics of power, con-sidering that these have their best functioning from a microphysics of power. To this end, a bibliographic re-view of Michel Foucault's vast work constitutes the base material for research. In the itinerary proposed by this study, the theme will be addressed at first with the characterization of the microphysics of power, followed by a reading of the transition from the an-cien regimento the so-called disciplinary society -as-sociated with the biopolitical device -and ending in the techniques of consciousness direction, in pastoral power, that is, in the dimension of subjectivity that becomes the focus of relations between government and governed, explaining the difference that consti-tutes the modern government / population paradigm in face of the legal analyzes organized by the idea of sovereign / people.