Biopoetic Organisms of Biopolitics

Abstract

Through social media, contemporary societies, interwoven by biopower and capitalism, produce imitations and copies of scenes that have already become part of social convention and norm. Faced with this type of imitation that has become current currency, it is possible to imitate the cynical type of imitation in an attempt to change, alter, or falsify it, using the lives of other animals as models of imitation, as well as the act of living in accordance with nature. In this way, it would be possible to disobey social conventions and confront the established order. The elaboration of the proposal, structured as a biopoetics of imitation, compiles elements from three examples of imitation to expose the contrast between imitation resulting from contemporary biopower and capitalism; three proposals that encourage the imitation of animality: ethology, community, and biopoetics; and the way of living in accordance with nature related to the organism-centered biological perspective. The conclusion holds that living biopoetically in accordance with the way of being of organisms promises a community whose power of life and telos point to coexistence and coproduction among organisms related to the environment.