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Abstract
The research on the production of political “qualified” or “unqualified” life forms was at the centre of the philosophical and sociological analytic of the last decades. In this frame, the concept of biopolitics revolutionised the topography and the analytical tools of the political as well as of the social relations and systems, allowing thus to make new connections and analogy visible. To such an analytical abundance, however, does not correspond a comparable reflection about praxis of emancipation from and in the biopolitical relations. In this paper I will show the theoretical and practical potential of the concept of use and its importance for the definition of an ontology of the ecological life, that could be ethical and political, in so much as this concept could allow a suspension and neutralization of the biopolitical dispositifs. In this perspective the recent works of Giorgio Agamben and Ottavio Marzocca are particularly important. Both authors – in different ways – adopt the concept of use in order to think and to live a new way to be in the world, which unlocks the bios from the biopolitical and bioeconomic cages of our time.
