VIRTUAL WAR AS THE CONTINUATION OF BIOPOLITICS BY OTHER MEANS

In the article the informational and the virtual character of the modern warfare is regarded as the effect of mediatized biopolitics, since the final approval of biopolitical dispositif coincides with the total spread of the media, and the current biopolitical paradigm is immersed in the virtual environment and permeated by network interactivity. Biopolitics considers the human life as a key resource of governance in the framework of consumption economy, but the war is still in demand as a political genre. In this context, a state of emergency assumes the character of a system error and is virtualized. Thus, we can speak of the pluralistic structure of any event and the ontological hybridity of contemporary emergency situations.

dispositif of power, sovereign power, biopolitics, bare life, state of emergency, virtual war