Título en español.

Abstract

This essay presents research on two aspects of bio-economy: violence and bare life. It explores empirical and theoretical issues concerning three main topics: 1) violence and the economy; 2) bio-economic paradoxes; 3) law and the abandonment of life. The author elaborates on the relationship between emergency laws enacted within the context of economic crises and the violence of the economy, understood as a power which renders vulnerable large segments of the society. The paradoxical nature of bio-economics can be observed through diverse forms of tanatopolitics, as for example, the killings associated with the drug traffic and the abandonment of life by the State, among others.