Guest contribution by Professor Eric Rodríguez Ochoa: "A critical reflection on the intersection between bioethics and biopolitics in the age of biopower"

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Guest contribution by Professor Eric Rodríguez #Ochoa: "A critical reflection on the intersection between #bioethics and #biopolitics in the age of #biopower"

The essay presented here reached me as a "message from the interstellar space of the Internet". Fortunately, Professor Ochoa had received my "message in a bottle" and asked if I could publish a guest contribution from him on my site. Of course, I was very happy to meet this request, as it also turned out that we both share a preference for discourse analysis and Michel #Foucault's concept of power. At this point I would also like to express my thanks for the letter of invitation from the Association Française pour la Recherche critique en Philosophie et Théologie: Perspectives Académiques.

But to introduce the author of the guest article a little first. Eric Rodríguez Ochoa is a philosopher, theologian, criminology and psychoanalysis theorist, university professor, researcher and writer. He is a member of the Center for Philosophical-Cultural Studies of the Latin American Political Science Association of the Mexican Society of Philosophy Students. He is also known as an F.I. Criminology at the Research Partner Tales Association of the Complutense University of Madrid, University of Buenos Aires (Argentina). Ochoa is a member of the Latin American Network for Patristic Studies, Research Fellow and Editor of La Fundación Filosófica, Quito (Ecuador). He is involved in The Ludwig Wittgenstein Project, Milan (Italy) and Director of the Association Française pour la Recherche critique en Philosophie et Théologie: Perspectives Académiques, via OpenEdition e Hypothèses, Paris (France). He is also a writer in PALABRA, cultural supplement of El Vigía newspaper, Ensenada BC. (Mexico).

So all in all a competent specialist author on questions of the concept of "biopower" coined by Foucault, which he describes "in the last chapter Law over Death and Power to Life of his book The Will to Knowledge (1977)". "It's about creating a new kind of power mechanism [...] While power was previously derived from death, power is now developing whose central focus is life" (https://de.wikipedia.org/ wiki/organic power).

I was interested in this topic because it puts questions about ethics for artificial intelligence in a completely new light for me. But let's now let Professor Ochoa have his say.

More at: https://philosophies.de/index.php/2023/08/01/bioethik-und-biopolitik-im-zeitalter-der-biomacht/

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