"HOMO SACER AND THE LIFE THAT DOES NOT DESERVE TO BE LIVED: a autoethnography in the penitentiary system of the Federal District".
Biopolitics. Homo sacer. Social enemy. Prision. Abolitionism.
The figure of the homo Sacer, rescued by the Italian philosopher Giorgio Agamben to explain the origin of politics, resembles the figure of the prisoner inserted in the Brazilian prison system. From the experience over three years imprisoned in the penitentiary system of Paraná and the Federal District performed this autoetnography. I start from the biopolitical perspective elaborated by Michel Foucault and continued by Agamben, in the sense that naked life and its exposure to sovereign power is the situation experienced by inmates in the prison system. At the same time that they are captured by the law, they are abandoned by it with regard to the basic rights of citizens. Worthless lives are exposed to death in the penitentiary system. The figure of the prisoner as the enemy of society is the biopolitical fund that allows his life not to be worthy of value. Even the prison showing its inefficiency, is still the most used modality. Prison as a breeding ground of pain and suffering, criminality and exposure of life to death, must give way to the desire for freedom and more rational ways for society to deal with its conflicts, such as abolitionism, for example.