들뢰즈의 소수정치와 네그리의 삶정치

The 'Minor Politics' of Gilles Deleuze and the 'Biopolitics' of Antonio Negri

Gilles Deleuze and Antonio Negri had developed their unique politics. We can sum up Gilles Deleuze's politics as 'minor politics' and Antonio Negri's politics as 'biopolitics'. They had groped for the possiblility of new subjectivity in the age of real subsumption of labor under capital. Their political theories are different from the auto-destruction theory and the political opportunism of the 2nd International. They did not think proletariat as a revolutionary identity as the politics of the Third International did. They proposed a politics of innovation that is different from the critical theory of Frankfurt School, which viewed the age of real subsumption pessimistically. So 'minor politics' and 'biopolitics' are considered as the important efforts which suggest the theoretical framework of 'What is to be done' in the age of real subsumption. I propose an idea which interpret the 'minor politics' as a component of 'biopolitics'. 'Minor politics' of Deleuze implies the destruction of the dominant system and the flight from it. And more positively it means the creation of blocs of lines of flight. We can consider it as a component of becoming-common of the creative powers of multitudes. 'Biopolitics' of Negri have developed more fully the potential of 'minor politics' through linking the concept of singularity in minor politics with the concept of commonality. It develops an concept of modern proletariat as the common constituent power of Geschichte. It is named by multitude. The minority in Deleuze and the multitude in Negri are the possible agency of becoming-common without any transcendent mediation.