Discipline, biopolitics and “sidadanization”: considerations from the application A Hora é Agora – Testar nos deixa mais fortes

Abstract

From the Michel Foucault’s theorical work, this article aims to investigate and explicit which power-knowledge strategies are entangled at the application A Hora é Agora – Testar nos deixa mais fortes, in that it is a practice that occur around the sexuality device, which works as an intersection point between disciplinary mechanisms and biopolitics technologies. It is argued that this public healthy polici works such as an object and also an instrument of standardization of individual bodies and the population, as well as acting in the production of subjectivity of homosexuals and men who have sex with other men marked by the aids stigma.

Keywords:  Homosexuality; Foucault; Biopolitics; Aids