Dr Arkadiusz Barut
Keywords: Social Insurance Institution, sovereignty, power, Michel Foucault, Judith Butler
English abstract: The subject of the article is the analysis of a specific feature of contemporary political and administrative power. As analytic categories the author uses Foucaultian concepts of power discourses: sovereignty: the type of individualized power which strives for self-conservation (pre-modern type of power) and governmentality – the type of non-individualized power the aims of which are control and management of the population (modern type of power). Contemporary power – the bureaucratic power described by M. Weber etc. – seems to be the type of governmentality. But in this field emerges a new type of sovereign power legitimized by the discourse of governmentality – management and protection of the population. Its examples are analysed by G. Agemben i J. Butler indefinite detention in Guantanamo. In this articles, the author focuses on symptoms of the new type of sovereignty in day-to day government action – the practice of the polish organ of compulsory social insurance – Social Insurance Institution (Zakład Ubezpieczeń Społecznych).
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A. Barut (2015) The position of Social Insurance Institution in the perspective of „sovereignty” conception of Michel Foucault and Judith Butler. Archiwum Filozofii Prawa i Filozofii Społecznej, 2015, no. 2(11), 27-41. https://archiwum.ivr.org.pl/531/the-position-of-social-insurance-institution-in-the-perspective-of-sovereignty-conception-of-michel-foucault-and-judith-butler/.