That a resistance to what is known today as biopower-the control, regulation, exploitation and instrumentalization of the living being-might emerge from possibilities written into the structure of the living being itself, not from the philosophical concepts that tower over it; that there might be a biological resistance to the biopolitical; that the biomight be viewed as a complex and contradictory authority, opposed to itself and referring to both the ideological vehicle of modern sovereignty and to that which holds it in check: this, apparently, has never been thought. Philosophy's Antibiological BiasWhat am I saying?It's a fact that in our time we have witnessed the definitive erasure of the limit between the political subject and the living subject that for centuries was believed to be secure.Michel Foucault illuminated magnificently the erasure of this limit, an erasure that marked the birth of the biopolitical and acts as the characteristic trait of modern sovereignty: "For millennia, man remained what he was for Aristotle: a living animal with
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Malabou et al. (2016) studied this question.