Postura em Agamben

Abstract

This article investigates the concept of posture in Giorgio Agamben. To this end, it begins with an analysis of inoperosity and its link with resistance to the rule of life, at which time its relationship with destitution and anarchy is also made explicit. Following, the concept of gesture is returned in Agamben, from which to deepen the posture: How can gestures configure a posture? How to think a posture from gestures? In Posture (2016), the philosopher analyzes a concept of posture based on the figure of the exhausted present in Deleuze's The Exhausted (2010) essay. The exhausted is the one who has exhausted all possibilities: when the power is exhausted, it neutralizes the act and set free its use. Living in the mode of use, in the mode of inoperosity, involves depleting power and act in every activity, thereby evading the strategy of capturing life-governing apparatus. It is in this sense that the posture of depleted interests Agamben: the posture of inoperosity would also be a posture of depleted. At the end of the essay Posture (2016), Agamben states that in the field of gestures, finally, even the posture, like the depleted, stay behind. However, this article insists on a posture configured by gestures, which is mainly justified when considering, with such concepts, the resistance to the rule of life from anarchy and rooting. The gesture is already an exposure, but the posture is a delay exposing, and is configured by gestures: it is an insistence restoring use and making use, a frequency, a delay in melee, resisting the rule of life orchestrated by apparatus. Gesture and posture make up a strategy: take a long time to expose a life you live by living.