Machination of contemporary subjectivities: a critique of identity in the name of singularity

Abstract

This article explores the mechanisms through which subjectivities are controlled by power in operations of transcendent individuation. In order to think about resistance to these operations of capturing power, we use a conceptual repertoire articulated from Nietzsche, Foucault, Deleuze and Guattari. Through this bibliographical exploration, we present how societies are constituted as factories equipped with machines and subjection technologies, and what changes over time is the way they operate and the machinery they have at their disposal. In the contemporary Western context, the capitalist machine prevails in this technology-subject relationship, whose main connection is power and desire. The movement of this text articulates concepts to violate certain images of thought whose praxis serves the subjectivation machinery that takes the subjects' desiring flows for themselves. It is concluded that it is necessary to cultivate life with ethical criteria that do not take into consideration transcendent, metaphysical or moral systems of judgment, but criteria of intensity that start from the recognition that life is strengthened not through conservation, but through immanent differentiation. Thus, we bet on the affirmative activity of an existence that, beyond modeling ideals, takes itself as a principle of singularization in an experience of subjective self-modeling.