为什么生命政治行不通——对生命政治的崛起、繁荣与困境的再思考

Why biopolitics does not work?-The contemporary rethinking on the origin,popularity and dilemma of biopolitics

生命政治全面推行以来,西方现代化不仅未能延续其繁荣,而且越发陷入困境。历史地看,生命政治因人口治理而崛起,因新自由主义而繁荣,因新冠疫情而陷入困境。然而批判性地讲,尽管生命政治发展为人口学、例外状态、经济治理与数字生命政治等形式,但这不仅没有给予个体更多人权与自由,也没有产生通往人类解放的现实路径。这表明生命政治在理论与实践上都行不通,所以不能走其西方现代化老路,而要走人民至上的中国式现代化新路,这是研究生命政治的当代价值所在。

Since biopolitics was thoroughly carried out,the prosperity of western modernization is no more and increasingly falling into dilemma.Historically,biopolitics rose due to population governance,prospered due to neoliberalism,and fell into trouble due to the new crown epidemic.Critically,even though biopolitics develops into the forms of demography,state of exception,economic governance,digital biopolitics,etc.,none of these gave individuals any more human rights and freedom,or the path of human liberation.It shows that biopolitics does not work in both theory and practice.Therefore,we should not follow the old path of biopolitics in western modernization,and we should choose a new path to put the people first in the Chinese path to modernization,which is the contemporary value of studying biopolitics.